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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)
- 7.7
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Grey patina, cracked along the channel and slightly chipped at the upper end of the channel.
Dating
- Date
- 7th/8th c.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- 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
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection S_50
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
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- [caption of the image]
Edition
Apparatus
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθη/ Σεργίῳ πατρικίω.
Mother of God, help Sergios patrikios.
References
- Edition(s)
- Parallel(s)
- (1) DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1951.31.5.121; (2) DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.5316; (3) Private collection, Germany − , no. 451; (4) DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.4318, (5) DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1955.1.2102, (6) DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.3947 − Zacos, 1, nos. 994 and 995a-b; (7) DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1951.31.5.2564; (8) DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1951.31.5.1110; (9) DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1947.2.800; (10) DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1947.2.801.
- Further references
Commentary
Many similar seals without iconography show an inscription in which the patrikios Sergios [1], invokes for help the Mother of God. They can be all dated to the 7th or 7th/8th c. Most of them differ from our specimen due to the different line breaks. The parallel seals (1) (2) are from a different boulloterion than our seal, but the line breaks are the same; the other seals show different line breaks than ours.
Footnotes
[1]. PmbZ Online 6566, 6567, 6591.