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The Mysterious Seal of Alexios Komnenos from Tamatarcha [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
This research concerns the unique seal of a Byzantine aristocrat named Alexios Komnenos found in Tamatarcha (modern Taman’), which has only one parallel from Trebizond. The authors explain the meaning of images on the seal (the resurrection on its obverse and St George leading a warrior by the hand on its reverse) as an ideological program of the ...
Viktor Chkhaidze   +2 more
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Emperor John II Komnenos

2023
Abstract John II Komnenos was born into an empire on the brink of destruction, with his father Alexios barely preserving it in the face of civil wars and invasions. A hostage to crusaders as a child, married to a Hungarian princess to win his father an alliance as a teenager, and leading his own campaigns as his father died, it was left ...
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Alexios Angelos Komnenos, a Patron without History?

Gesta, 1996
This article focuses on the superb quality of the painted cycle of the twelfth-century Byzantine church of St. Panteleimon at Nerezi. Rather than extolling the high quality as an end in itself, however, the article uses the cycle's excellence as a way of gaining access to the figure of the donor, a distinguished but historically almost wholly unknown ...
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