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Byzantine seals at the Istanbul Archaeological Museums were published by Ebersolt about a century ago and unfortunately it provides limited information. In 2007 V. Bulgurlu competed and published her dissertation on 350 of them. Since then this is the first comprehensive work on the collection. The first section on the imperial seals presents 61 examples; second chapter on central administration 255 examples, the third chapter on provincial administration presents 132 seals; fourth chapter on palatine functions presents 34; fifth chapter on dignitaries 255 seals; sixth chapter on the Church presents 152; seventh chapter on patronymics 125 seals; eighth chapter on prenoms 228 examples; ninth chapter on anonymous examples presents 34; tenth chapter on iconographic examples presents 88 seals; eleventh chapter on uncertain seals presents 152 examples. The work is in French but the introduction, main texts in ch. 3 and glossary are also given in Turkish. Each seal is illustrated with b/w images on both sides.

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