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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- ―
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Weight (g)
- 12.3
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Corroded, blank too small for the die.
Dating
- Date
- Late 7th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Issuer's milieu
- private
- Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Cologne (Germany)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection S-260
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Byzantine Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Border indistinct.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Byzantine Greek
- Layout of field
- ―
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Border indistinct.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
Apparatus
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθη/ Γεωργίῳ ἀπὸ ὑπάτων.
Mother of God, help Georgios apo hypaton.
References
- Edition(s)
- Parallel(s)
- (1) Athens, Numismatic Museum, no. 585 – Konstantopoulos, coll. Athens, 1917, no. 585; (2) Istanbul, Archaeological Museum, no. Ist.168a-82 – Cheynet, Gökyıldırım, Bulgurlu, coll. Istanbul, no. 5.30; (3) Tatis Collection, no. 3018 – Cheynet, coll. Tatış, no. 5.22.
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
The seal issuer[1] is known from this seal type.
Footnotes
[1]. PLRE, 3,Georgius 61; PmbZ Online, 2038.