TAKTIKON- Studies on the Prosopography and Administration of the Byzantine Themata
by Olga Karagiorgou, et al (eds.).
Academy of Athens, 2021.

Hard cover, 29 cm. 904 pp., ill.: 638 coloured photos, 241 B&W photos, 6 coloured maps.

Part I: aims and the methodological principles.

Part II: The thematic administration on the evidence of sigillographic and other sources: some case studies.

Part III: Unpublished molybdoboulla relevant to the administration of Byzantine Asia Minor; includes the papers by Nikolaj Alekseienko (Correspondents of Byzantine Cherson), Oleksandr Alf'orov (Seals of Eustratios Chrysoberges from the territory of the Rus'), Vera Bulgurlu (Seals from the Museum of Miletos), Jean-Claude Cheynet (A. Sceaux parisiens inédits, and B. Sceaux dans la collection Savvas Kofopoulos, Lesbos), Nilgün Elam (Seals from eleven museums in Turkey), Esra Güzel Erdogan and Vivien Prigent (Sceaux au musée d'Adana), and Elena Stepanova (Seals of the Kibyrraiotai from the Hermitage.

Part IV: Interpretations of the sigillographic material; includes the papers by Ivan Jordanov (Byzantine Eastern armies in the Balkans), Th. Kourempanas (Σφραγίδες με απεικονίσεις αετών), Valerij Stepanenko (The family of Artzruni) and Zhenya Zhekova (Thematic seals from Bulgaria).

The authors in Parts III and IV of the volume discuss more than 230 Byzantine lead seals (in their overwhelming majority previously unpublished), kept in private and state collections in Bulgaria, France, Greece, Russia, and the Ukraine, which are relevant to the administration and the prosopography of Byzantine Asia Minor.

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