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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Weight (g)
- 5.2
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-11
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Partially effaced on the obverse, struck off-centre to the upper right on the obverse and to the upper left on the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- Late 11th c.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Prosopography
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- ―
- Issuer's milieu
- Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Cologne (Germany)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection S-112
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
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- [caption of the image]
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- [caption of the image]
Edition
Apparatus
Legend and translation
Σφραγὶς Βασιλείου προέδρου καὶ κριτοῦ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἱπποδρόμου τοῦ Μαυροῦ.
Seal of Basileios Mauros, proedros and krites epi tou hippodromou.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- (1) American Numismatic Society, Mabbott, no. 223 – Laurent, Corpus, 2, no. 886 ; (2) American Numismatic Society, Mabbott, no. 333 – Laurent, Corpus, 2, no. 886 ; (3) Yambol, Historical Museum, no. 5463 – Jordanov, Corpus, 2, no. 427; Jordanov, Corpus, 3, no. 936; Jordanov, 2002, p. 28-29, no. 7 ; (4) private collection (V. Vurbanov, Bulgaria) – Jordanov, Corpus, 2, no. 428; Jordanov, Corpus, 3, no. 937; Jordanov, 2002, p. 28-29, no. 8 ; (5) private collection (Bulgaria) – Jordanov, Corpus, 2, no. 429; Jordanov, Corpus, 3, no. 938 (in both cases only a mention). (1) and (2) don’t seem to have been struck by the same boulloterion as ours.
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
To Basileios Mauros[1] is attributed another seal type, on which he appears only as praipositos.[2] Since the title of proedros is not mentioned in the legend, it can be assumed that this second specimen was struck earlier, probably in the last third of the 11th c.
Footnotes
[1]. PBW 2016, Basileios 20221.
[2]. DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.2105; a second parallel specimen (BZS 1958.106.5515) has not yet been published and couldn’t be verified.