A Selection of Unpublished Lead Seals from the Gaziantep Archeological Museum: Seals Issued by State Officials

Gaziantep had a permanent role in trade routes, its proximity to Samasota and setting on the west of Euphrates was also played an important role. Gaziantep Archeological Museum has 120 seals, including the seals belong to state officials, provincial and military officials, ecclesiastical seals and anonymous seals. In the presentation of the seals we used Athena font for capital letters and Greek Unicode in small letters. Besides, a line in the catalogue dedicated to the proposed date for the seal. Since we avoid to repeat the well known fact we avoid to translate the Greek insciption into English, but instead we put a footnotes for the titles and dignities. Unfortunately, as always the case in Anatolian museums we do not have any answer for the finding places of the seals, since most of them bought or confiscated by the museum is also applicable for Gaziantep Museum. Only we have an idea the inventory numbers (1.6.92 to 10.6.92) most probably struck with the same boulleterion. According to the museum records these seals came from the necropolis area known as Kurtini and one may consider the existence of a private archive in the same spot