Takács Imre: Az Árpád-házi királyok pecsétjei (Corpus sigillorum hungariae mediaevalis 1. Budapest, 2012)

Catalogue

6.

Béla I (1060-1063)

Great seal

fragment: 44 x 32 mm

One broken remnant is known, almost certainly from the central part of the round royal seal, with parchment suspension ribbons laid across it. These seem to have crossed around the centre of the figure fragment. The image probably depicted the full figure of the ruler seated on the throne.

Original:

Pannonhalma, Benedictine Archabbey Archives, miscellanea Copy:

Budapest History Museum, inv. no. 66.1867.

Györffy I960, pp. 150-157, T. 2; Gynrffy 1968, pp. 3-9, fig. 2; MTI, fig. 185; Kumorovitz 1993, pp. 32-33; DHA, Tab. III. a-b; Bodor 2001, p. 5, fig. 9.

7.

King Solomon (1063-1074)

Lead bulla

cast, pressed lead; diam: 31 mm

Oval lead impression with figure in oval frame and legend on front and legend in four lines on reverse. The place of the broken suspension cord is visible at the top on the front. The figure has probably suffered an impact on the side of the right hand, where the forms have disappeared and the edge is broken; similarly on the reverse.

Legend in lined border frame on front:

[S]ALOM[ON] [RE]X

Legend in four lines in round field inside border on reverse:

DEI / GRACI[A] / VNGRO / [R]VM

Original:

Belgrade City' Museum (Belgrade, castle, excavation find, 1973)

Gaj-Popovic, D.: Olovna bula madarskog kralja Salomona. Godisnjakgrada Beograda 25, 1978, pp. 163-167; MT I, fig. 187; DHA, p. 189, Tab. 1. c-d; Bodor 2001, p. 5, fig. 3.

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