“I Carve You, Keeper of My Soul and My Writings, on My Seal...”
Journal: Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta Serija 4 Istorija Regionovedenie Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija
Year: 2015

The lead seals perfectly illustrate the indissoluble connection of Byzantine society with religion, its attributes and Christian symbols. There is not much data saved in annals of Byzantine history, including church sources, on the general background of hagiographic information about church figures, in particular about the clergymen of provincial dioceses, were. Their lists are not completed and the names of some of them had become famous only due to the findings of the Byzantine lead seals – mo