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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Weight (g)
- 6.6
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
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- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
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- Condition
- Green patina, weakly imprinted, blank slightly too small for the die.
Dating
- Date
- 9th c., second half – early 10th c.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Iconography.
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration.
- Issuer
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- Issuer's milieu
- Place of origin
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- Find place
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- Find date
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- Find circumstances
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- Modern location
- Cologne (Germany)
- Institution and repository
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- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection Κr-81
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
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- Iconography
- Patriarchal cross mounted on three steps. Along the circumference, within concentric borders of dots, a circular inscription beginning with a cross at 7 o'clock.
- Decoration
- Cross at the begenning of the legend. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
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Images
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Edition
Apparatus
Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ/ Βασιλίῳ κουράτωρι τοῦ στρατιγοῦ.
Lord, help your servant Basileios kourator of the strategos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- Further references
Commentary
Footnotes