There will be a bit of us at @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social this summer! 🎉Very happy to report that our project coordinator has been awarded a summer fellowship in Byzantine Studies, where she will study the seals of the Triakontaphyllos famil. Kudos, @sealygirl.bsky.social!

Join us on May 16 at @mfoxford.bsky.social for "Digital Byzantine Studies: Current Methods and Future Applications", a workshop on digital corpora, prosopography, TEI, 3D & more in Byzantine research. Organized by @sealygirl.bsky.social, @surmaison.bsky.social, Olivier Delouis & Claudia Sode.

Beautiful closing remarks delivered by @surmaison.bsky.social #siegelsymposium last week, now available for everyone to read on the SigiDoc blog! 👇🏽

That’s a wrap! The #siegelsymposium has come to an end, and what an incredible days it has been! We had discussions about every aspect of Byzantine history and new insights that pushed the field forward. We had great food & company, and a unique excursion that made this symposium even more special.

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Ioanna Koukouni (Independent Researcher) 📜 "Two New Byzantine Lead Bullae from the Island of Chios" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Eugenia Gerousi-Bendermacher (Hellenic Ministry of Culture) 📜 "The Lead Seals of the Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Museum in Athens" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Christos Stavrakos (University of Ioannina) 📜 "The Byzantine Lead Seals from the Acropolis of Athens" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Christos Stavrakos (University of Ioannina) 📜 "The Byzantine Lead Seals from the Acropolis of Athens" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Jan Bigalke, Claes Neuefeind et al. (University of Cologne) 📜 "The DigiByzSeal Project: A Digital Infrastructure for Seals" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Pantelis Charalampakis, Nikolay Dimitrov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) et al. 📜 "Towards a Digital Sigillographic Corpus of Bulgaria" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Andreas Gkoutzioukostas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) et al. 📜 "Remarks on Seals Found Along the Danube (7th-9th c.)" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Marco Muresu (University of Cagliari) 📜 "Framing Byzantine Culture in Medieval Sardinia Between Continuity and Storytelling. The Seals of the ‘Carte Volgari’" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Dimitris Sidiropoulos, Konstantinos Diados (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) et al. 📜 "The Distribution of Seals in Early Byzantine Thrace (6th-8th c.): An Interdisciplinary Approach" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Eugen Paraschiv-Grigore and Ioana Paraschiv-Grigore (The National History Museum of Romania) 📜 "Commercial Links between the Western Black Sea and Western Asia Minor 4th - 6th Centuries AD" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Lucia Maria Orlandi (École française de Rome) 📜 "Signacula-Markers: The “Poor Relation” of Seals?" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Max Ritter (University of Silesia) 📜 "The Seal of Patronage: Monograms in the Architectural Sculpture of Sixth- to Tenth-Century Constantinople" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Austrian Academy of Sciences) 📜 "Χρυσὸς κοσμεῖ δάκτυλον. Neue Aspekte zu Inhalt und Funktion vier spätbyzantinischer Goldringe" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Tommaso Giuliodoro (Durham University) 📜 "The Praetorian Prefecture of North Africa in the Mid-7th Century: The Case of Marinus, praefectus et commerciarius" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Margherita Elena Pomero (University of Bologna) 📜 "From Prefect to Exarch of Italy: The Seals of Theodore Calliopa" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Nilgün Elam (Anadolu University) and Olga Karagiorgou (Academy of Athens) 📜 "New Molybdoboulla from Turkish Museums Issued by Thematic Officials in Asia Minor" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Pantelis Charalampakis (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Olga Karagiorgou (Academy of Athens), and Christos Malatras (Sorbonne University) 📜 "Addenda and Corrigenda in the TAKTIKON (2021)" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Olga Karagiorgou (Academy of Athens) 📜 "Byzantine Thematic Officials in the WWW: The TAKTIKON online" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Nilgün Elam (Anadolu University) and Christos Malatras (Sorbonne University) 📜 "Lead Seals from the Collection of the Museum of Antiocheia of Pisidia (Yalvaç)" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Nikolaos Mastrochristos (Independent Researcher) 📜 "Byzantine Lead Seals from Rhodes, Greece. New Data from Old and Recent Finds" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Nathan DC Websdale (University of Oxford) 📜 "The Problem With ‘Being’ King David: Reassessing the Seals and Letters of David Grand Komnenos of Paphlagonia (1204-c.1212)" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Thanasis Sotiriou (Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH) 📜 "Exploring the Seals of Late Byzantine Sebastoi, 1204-1350" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Maria Teresa Catalano (University of Cologne) 📜 "The Usage of Participles on Byzantine Lead Seals" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Maria Campagnolo-Pothitou (Museum of Art and History, Geneva) 📜 "À qui la faute? L’usage de l’accusatif dans les légendes des sceaux byzantins" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Martina Filosa (University of Cologne) 📜 "The Administrative Personnel of the Charitable Institutions in Byzantium in the Light of Lead Seals" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 #siegelsymposium – LIVE 🔵 Now speaking... 🎤 Jean-Claude Cheynet (Sorbonne University) 📜 "Le comte de l’Etable" byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...

🔵 The 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography has begun! 🔵 We're live from Cologne, kicking off three days of exciting discussions on Byzantine seals! Stay tuned for real-time updates on papers and speakers right here. Follow along with #siegelsymposium!

Our goodie (or should we say foodie?) bags are ready, packed with seal-themed surprises! 🎁 Come grab yours tomorrow at the 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography and see what we’ve prepared for you! ✨

Medieval brick “hearts” in the Queen of Cities 🫶

And here it is—the final programme of the 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography! 🎉 For more information, make sure to keep an eye on the official conference website: byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos... See you on Thursday in Cologne! 👇🏾 #siegelsymposium

🎉 The 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography is just one week away! Check out the full programme on the dedicated website: 🔗 byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos... 🤳🏽We'll be posting live updates from this account with the hashtag #siegelsymposium – don’t miss it!

Join @palaeofuturist.bsky.social & me for the Digital Classicist Wiki Editing & Tutorial on 27 February 2025, 2-3 PM (GMT)! Learn how to contribute to this collaborative resource on digital humanities for ancient world studies. Register now: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/digit...

🎉 Celebrating 4 Years of "Βυζάντιο Explained"! 🎉 Over 116,000 plays across platforms, 4,600+ podcast followers, 1,700+ YouTube subscribers, and a growing Instagram community of 2,600+ Thank you for joining us on this journey through Byzantine history! #ΒυζάντιοExplained #PodcastAnniversary #ThankYou

Have a look at this! Pretty interesting (and not only because our project is featured! 😜)! 👇🏽

"Sigi...Comment dites-vous?" Ipse (Tintin) dixit! 🧐 Just a kind reminder that the 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography is only two months away! Check out programme and abstracts at byzantinistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/siegelsympos...!

Our very own Konstantina Eleftheriadi shares insights from her #HTR experiments on Byzantine manuscripts, conducted during the #SunoikisisDC series co-organised by @palaeofuturist.bsky.social, @monica-berti.bsky.social, and @sealygirl.bsky.social. Read her fantastic article here on the Stoa Blog 👇🏽

What a wonderful idea! Honoured to be part of this starter pack. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat about digital Byzantine studies!🌷

📣We’re excited to announce that the official website for the 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography (27–29 March 2025, University of Cologne) is live! Explore the programme, abstracts, and more. 👇🏽 #byzantine #sigillography #digitalclassics

Hello World!👋🏽 If you want to know more about the project "Creating a Sustainable Digital Infrastructure for Research-Based Teaching in Byzantine Studies" funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social and all things Digital Byzantine Studies at the University of Cologne, follow this account! ✌🏽