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Sigillography refers to the study of seals attached to documents.
Studies in Byzantine Sigillography, generally abbreviated to SBS, was founded by the late Nicolas Oikonomides as an occasional medium for the publication of papers relating to a late-blooming field, the study of Byzantine lead seals.
The paper is interesting for its list of Virgin types -- Hodegetria, Blachernitissa, Nikopoios, etc. -- which feature on seals, and for noting the occasional inconsistency between inscriptions and icon type, suggesting that not all Byzantines were as confident as modern art historians in their identifications.
Whereas all that Koltsida-Makre writes can be understood, albeit with the occasional sympathetic wince, Stepanenko's text become obscure on a number of occasions, for example in arguing that representations of St. George on horseback are rare (which they are not) when the author surely means in the absence of the dragon.
The Catalan Association of Vexillology (ACV), whose secretary I am, proposed on 11 April 1984 a design which observes tradition and which is made up of the symbols that the city has always had: the cross of Sant Jordi and the [four] bars of Catalonia.
The Catalan Society for Genealogy, Heraldry, Sigillography, Vexillology and Nobility (SCGHSVN) is carrying out a campaign against the new symbols of Barcelona (more details at this webpage).
The Catalan Society of Genealogy, Heraldry, Vexillology, Sigillography and Nobility, which I am a member of, won a resolution of the Catalan Supreme Court ruling that the flag of Barcelona city was the one we were proposing.
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