- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations of Works Cited
- Critical Signs and General Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Why Anonymous Seals with Bilateral Religious Images?
- 2. The Corpus and Its Relationship to Byzantine Seals in General
- 3. “Selectivity”
- 4. Iconographic Types and Their Distribution
- 5. Determining Obverse and Reverse
- 6. Organizing Principles of the Catalogue Entries
- 7. Dating
- 8. Historical Trends
- 9. Case Studies
- I. Christ or Narrative Scene
- 1. Obverse: Christ
- 2. Obverse: A Narrative Scene
- II. The Virgin
- 3. Obverse: Bust of the Virgin without Her Hands Showing
- 4. Obverse: The Virgin with Her Hands Raised before Her
- A. Reverse: Archangel Michael
- B. Reverse: John the Baptist
- C. Reverse: A Church Hierarch
- D. Reverse: A Military Saint
- E. Reverse: Various Other Saints
- F. Reverse: The Cross
- 5. Obverse: The Virgin Orans
- A. Reverse: The Virgin
- B. Reverse: Archangel Michael
- C. Reverse: John the Baptist
- D. Reverse: An Apostle
- E. Reverse: A Church Hierarch
- F. Reverse: A Military Saint
- G. Reverse: Various Other Saints
- H. Reverse: An Uncertain Saint
- I. Reverse: The Cross
- J. Reverse: A Blank
- 6. Obverse: The Virgin Turned in Prayer
- 7. Obverse: The Virgin with Christ Held before Her
- 8. Obverse: The Virgin Holding Christ on Her Arm
- 9. Obverse: The Virgin Holding a Medallion of Christ
- A. Reverse: Archangel Michael
- B. Reverse: John the Baptist
- C. Reverse: An Apostle
- D. Reverse: A Church Hierarch
- E. Reverse: A Military Saint
- F. Reverse: Various Other Saints
- 9a. Obverse: The Virgin Enthroned Holding a Medallion of Christ
- A. Reverse: Archangel Michael
- B. Reverse: A Church Hierarch
- 10. Obverse: The Virgin Orans with a Medallion of Christ
- A. Reverse: The Virgin
- B. Reverse: An Archangel
- C. Reverse: John the Baptist
- D. Reverse: An Apostle
- E. Reverse: A Church Hierarch
- F. Reverse: A Military Saint
- G. Reverse: Various Other Saints
- H. Reverse: An Uncertain Saint
- I. Reverse: The Cross
- 11. Obverse: The Virgin Accompanied by Epithets
- III. Archangel Michael
- 12. Obverse: Archangel Michael
- A. Reverse: An Archangel
- B. Reverse: A Church Hierarch
- C. Reverse: A Military Saint
- D. Reverse: Various Other Saints
- 12. Obverse: Archangel Michael
- IV. John the Baptist
- 13. Obverse: John the Baptist
- A. Reverse: A Church Hierarch
- B. Reverse: A Military Saint
- C. Reverse: Various Other Saints
- 13. Obverse: John the Baptist
- V. An Apostle
- 14. Obverse: An Apostle
- VI. A Church Hierarch
- 15. Obverse: A Church Hierarch
- A. Reverse: A Church Hierarch
- B. Reverse: A Military Saint
- C. Reverse: Various Other Saints
- D. Reverse: An Uncertain Saint
- E. Reverse: The Cross
- F. Reverse: An Apotropaic Device
- G. Reverse: A Blank
- 15. Obverse: A Church Hierarch
- VII. A Military Saint
- 16. Obverse: A Military Saint
- A. Reverse: A Military Saint
- B. Reverse: Various Other Saints
- C. Reverse: The Cross
- 16. Obverse: A Military Saint
- VIII. Various Other Saints
- 17. Obverse: Various Other Saints
- IX. An Uncertain Saint
- 18. Obverse: An Uncertain Saint
- X. Iconographic Tokens
- 19. Iconographic Tokens
- Index of Proper Names and Terms
- Index of Iconography
- Index of Seals with Inscriptions (in Addition to Identifying Inscriptions)
- List of Seals Published
- Glossary
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Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, 7
Anonymous, with Bilateral Religious Imagery
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