The 14th Symposium on Byzantine Sigillography, recently held in Thessaloniki (event page), has just come to a close. During the second day of the conference, Pantelis Charalampakis (more here) presented the Digital Sigillographic Corpus of Bulgaria (view site), a project that is now taking its first steps online, with its initial set of seals already […]
As part of the ANR-DFG DigiByzSeal project, the digitisation campaign of the seal collection held by the Institut Français d’Études Byzantines (IFEB), hosted by the Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP), has recently been completed. The digitisation was carried out by the company Azentis and executed by Eugénie Komarovska, with the assistance of Illia Kovalenko, Célia […]
The 13th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography that ended last week was both a testament to the excellent organization by the Department of Byzantine Studies at the University of Cologne and a vibrant space for high-quality presentations and engaging, fruitful discussions. Unlike previous editions, which were often by invitation only, this year’s symposium included a […]
In the framework of the ANR-DFG DigiByzSeal project, for the imaging of damaged seals the choice was made to use Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), a photographic technique that enables the surface of an object to be captured and explored with greater precision by simulating different lighting conditions. This method combines a series of photographs taken […]
Nous avons le plaisir de partager avec vous l’appel à communications pour l’International Symposium on Byzantine Seal Studies, qui aura lieu à l’Université de Cologne les 27 et 28 mars 2025. Le symposium est organisé sous les auspices du projet ANR/DFG DigiByzSeal – Unlocking the Hidden Value of Seals: New Methodologies for Historical Research in […]
Alors que le début de l’année 2024 bat son plein et que la France voit un renouvellement de l’équipe gouvernementale, nous pouvons nous plonger dans l’actualité politique byzantine de 1055. En effet, le 11 janvier de cette année, l’empereur Constantin IX Monomaque est décédé d’une pleurésie, contractée à la suite d’une baignade. Son agonie et […]
Working on the project we came across a seal (SB-370) with a spectacular depiction of St. John the Theologian. The seal is broken into two halves, but well readable. The image on the obverse of the seal seems to be hitherto unattested on Byzantine seals: St. John the Theologian is shown holding a Gospel in […]
Nouvelle réunion des équipes française et allemande au cours du mois d’octobre (10-11 octobre 2023). L’Université de Cologne a accueilli les membres de l’équipe française pour avancer sur les sujets techniques, numériques et de choix d’organisation des sceaux dans la version finale de SigiDoc. Cette réunion a permis des avancées notables sur plusieurs questions qui […]
A key highlight of the program, facilitated by the use of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), is its ability to identify seals with significant damage that were previously impossible to read with the naked eye. An illustrative case is the seal SB-25 from the Robert Feind collection. Through our RTI images, the inscriptions became legible, leading […]
Hi, our names are Pia and Sofia and we are the SigiDoc-encoders of the German team of DigiByzSeal! Let us introduce ourselves: Pia: I am a master´s student in Byzantine Studies in Cologne, and I am very interested in Sigillography. I attended a few university courses on this topic and I realized how incredibly much […]
En poursuivant le travail sur les sceaux au mois d’août, l’esprit vagabonde et voyage vers les plages chaudes et sablonneuses. Dans cette ambiance estivale, nous vous présentons un sceau qui nous a transporté de Paris à la Méditerranée.Voici le sceau de Théophane, spathaire impérial et drongaire de la mer Egée, datant de la première moitié […]
Réunion des équipes SigiDoc
Opération rassemblement pour l’équipe du projet SigiDoc ! Les membres des team française (Paris) et allemande (Cologne) ont pu bénéficier de l’accueil de l’École française de Rome pour se réunir du 12 au 13 mai. Objectifs : – Etablir le planning des prochaines rencontres – Resserrer les liens entre […]
A few words to introduce SigiDoc
In January 2020 SigiDoc has been presented to a wide community of scholars in the Digital Humanities during a poster session at AIUCD‘s IX annual meeting.