{"id":36517,"date":"2026-05-05T15:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:10:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:47:30","slug":"drohiczyn-type-small-lead-seals-with-the-image-of-a-bird-from-the-collection-of-the-national-museum-in-krakow-old-ruthenian-sigillography-versus-early-piast-numismatics-plomby-typu-drohiczynskiego","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/tom-xvi-notae-numismaticae-zapiski-numizmatyczne\/drohiczyn-type-small-lead-seals-with-the-image-of-a-bird-from-the-collection-of-the-national-museum-in-krakow-old-ruthenian-sigillography-versus-early-piast-numismatics-plomby-typu-drohiczynskiego\/","title":{"rendered":"Drohiczyn-type Small Lead Seals with the Image of a Bird from the Collection of the National Museum in Krakow. Old Ruthenian Sigillography Versus Early Piast Numismatics \/ Plomby typu drohiczy\u0144skiego z wyobra\u017ceniem ptaka w kolekcji Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie. Staroruska sfragistyka versus wczesnopiastowska numizmatyka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4fc3f8e1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anna Bochnak, National Museum in Krakow<br>ORCID: 0000-0003-1294-0166<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drohiczyn-type Small Lead Seals with the Image of a Bird from the Collection of the National Museum in Krakow. Old Ruthenian Sigillography Versus Early Piast Numismatics<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: The rich collection of the Numismatic Cabinet of the National Museum in Krakow (MNK) includes special sigillographic artefacts, i.e. Drohiczyn-type small lead seals. The collection contains specimens with various iconographic representations, including small seals with images of birds. Similar small seals are known from archaeological excavations conducted in Mazovia. Interestingly, some images impressed on the small seals have analogies with representations on Piast coins from the 12th and 13th century. It is highly likely that the small seals with images of birds are local issues from Mazovia. This is indicated by a characteristic type of bird representations, most probably eagles. This would mean that they were an adaptation of the Ruthenian idea of using small lead seals but with local Piast symbols.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Key words:<\/strong> Drohiczyn, Drohiczyn-type small lead seals, iconography, Piast eagle<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DOI<\/strong>: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.52800\/ajst.1.16.a10<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bochnak, A. 2021. \u201cDrohiczyn-type Small Lead Seals with the Image of a Bird from the Collection of the National Museum in Krakow. Old Ruthenian Sigillography Versus Early Piast Numismatics\u201d, Notae Numismaticae \u2013 Zapiski Numizmatyczne 16: 225\u2013242. DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.52800\/ajst.1.16.a10<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-mnk-downloads-block links-downloads-block download-block\"><div class=\"link-row\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/10-Bochnak-Drohiczyn-type-small.pdf\" class=\"d-flex align-items-center link-row-inner\" aria-label=\"Pobierz: Drohiczyn-type Small Lead Seals with the Image of a Bird from the Collection of the National Museum in Krakow. Old Ruthenian Sigillography Versus Early Piast Numismatics \/ Plomby typu drohiczy\u0144skiego z wyobra\u017ceniem ptaka w kolekcji Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie. Staroruska sfragistyka versus wczesnopiastowska numizmatyka (PDF, 952 kB)\" download><svg class=\"icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><use href=\"#file-icon\"><\/use><\/svg><div class=\"content\"><p>Drohiczyn-type Small Lead Seals with the Image of a Bird from the Collection of the National Museum in Krakow. Old Ruthenian Sigillography Versus Early Piast Numismatics \/ Plomby typu drohiczy\u0144skiego z wyobra\u017ceniem ptaka w kolekcji Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie. Staroruska sfragistyka versus wczesnopiastowska numizmatyka<span class=\"file-format-size\"> (PDF, 952 kB)<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Bochnak, National Museum in KrakowORCID: 0000-0003-1294-0166 Drohiczyn-type Small Lead Seals with the Image of a Bird from the Collection of the National Museum in Krakow. Old Ruthenian Sigillography Versus Early Piast Numismatics Abstract: The rich collection of the Numismatic Cabinet of the National Museum in Krakow (MNK) includes special sigillographic artefacts, i.e. Drohiczyn-type small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":36495,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36517","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36518,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36517\/revisions\/36518"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnk.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}