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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- ―
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Weight (g)
- 11.9
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Corroded, blank too small for the die.
Dating
- Date
- late 7th c. – early 8th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
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-290
- 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 and at the end of the legend. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Byzantine Greek
- Layout of field
- ―
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning and at the end of the legend. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
Apparatus
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθη /Ἀρτεμίῳ ὑπάτῳ.
Mother of God, help Artemios hypatos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Parallel(s)
- (1) DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1955.1.1938; (2) BnF, no. 1359 (Zacos Collection) − Zacos, 1, no. 2861; (3) Hannover, Museum August Kestner, no. L433.2015.33 (Zarnitz Collection) − , no. 436 − Seibt & Wassiliou-Seibt, 1976, no. 33 − Münz Zentrum, Auction 161 (11–12 January 2012), lot 796; (4) (5) private collection(s), Berlin − , no. 437-438 ; (6) Istanbul, Archaeological Museum, no. Ist. 1612-681 − Cheynet, Gökyıldırım, Bulgurlu, coll. Istanbul, no. 5.50; (7) Tatis Collection, no. 2637 − Cheynet, coll. Tatış, no. 5.38; (8) Köhler-Osbahr Collection, no. 13/83/2,11 − , no. 23 (= Auctions 1997-2001, p. 206, no. 23) ; (9) Wassiliou-Seibt Collection, no. 327 − unpublished, mentioned in Seibt & Wassiliou-Seibt, 1976, p. 55, footnote 131; (10) Wien, Institute for numismatics, no. 1393 − mentioned in Seibt & Wassiliou-Seibt, 1976, p. 55, footnote 131; (11) Münz Zentrum, Auction 65 (9 November 1988), lot 1740 (= Auctions 1986-1992, p. 179, no. 1740); (12) Italo Vecchi, Auction 13 (4 September 1998), lot 1305; (13) Hirsch, Auction 271 (17–19 February 2011), lot 2665 (= Auctions 2007-2011, p. 165, no. 2665).
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
The seal issuer[1] is known from this seal type.
Footnotes
[1]. PLRE, 3,Artemius; PmbZ Online, 646.