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Weeks Topics
Week - 1 History of the Byzantine sigillography; definition of sigillography: Types of seals, critical signs, glossary, and instructions on how to search
Week - 2 Material: "Seal" and sealing in Byzantine sigillography
Week - 3 Greek alphabet; inscriptions, monograms, iconography and typology on Byzantine seals
Week - 4 Owners of the seals and Institutions: imperial seals; patriarchal seals; official seals; private seals; monastic seals; institutional seals
Week - 5 Owners of the seals and Institutions: imperial seals;
Week - 6 Owners of the seals and Institutions: Patriarchal seals
Week - 7 Owners of the seals and Institutions: official seals
Week - 8 Owners of the seals and Institutions: private seals
Week - 9 Owners of the seals and Institutions: monastic seals
Week - 10 Owners of the seals and Institutions: institutional seals
Week - 11 Cataloguing Conventions; critical signs: letters of uncertain reading; illegible letters; missing letters; abbreviations
Week - 12 Cataloguing Conventions; Critical Signs: restoration of letters either omitted or misleadingly written by the engraver; superfluous letters that appear on the seal
Week - 13 Dating: Dating: dating of seals by century; absolute dating: dating of seals by the indicative dates on the seals themselves (kommerkiarios seals) or by the terms of office of seals belonging to persons known to have been on active duty (e.g. emperors or patriarchs).
Week - 14 Final exam

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