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Seal of Arsenios presbyter and hegoumenos of the monastery of St Theodore
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    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    Matrix

    Physical description

    Medium
    Original impression
    Material
    Lead
    Shape
    Round
    Dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 30
    Weight (g)
    10.2
    Channel orientation (clock)
    6-12
    Axis (clock)
    Overstrike orientation (clock)
    Execution
    Struck
    Countermark
    Condition
    Green patina, cracked along the channel on the obverse, slightly chipped at both ends of the channel. .

    Dating

    Date
    9th c., middle or second half.
    Internal date
    Dating criteria
    Epigraphy, Iconography.
    Alternative date

    History

    Category
    Ecclesiastical
    Issuer
    Issuer's milieu
    Place of origin
    Find place
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    Modern location
    Cologne (Germany)
    Institution and repository
    Collection and inventory
    Robert Feind Collection SB-17
    Acquisition
    Previous locations
    Modern observations

    Obverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Iconography with circular legend..
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Matrix
    Iconography
    The Mother of God standing, holding the Christ on her left arm (Hodegetria). No sigla visible. Along the circumference, a partially preserved circular inscription beginning with a cross at 7h.
    Decoration
    Border indistinct.
    Epigraphy

    Reverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Legend of 4 lines.
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Matrix
    Iconography
    Decoration
    Epigraphy

    Images

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    [caption of the image]

    Edition

    Interpretive

    obv
    1 Θεοτόκε βοήθ[ει τῷ σῷ δούλ]ῳ
    rev

    2 [Αρ]σενίῳ
    3[πρ]εσβυτ(έρῳ) (καὶ) ἡ-
    4 [γ]ουμ(ένῳ) τοῦ ἁγ(ίου) Θε-
    5ωδόρου

    Diplomatic

    obv
    1ΘΕΟΤ̣ỌḲΕ ΒΟΗΘ̣ ...
    rev
    2 ..CΕΝΙ̣
    3..ΕCβVT,SH.
    4 .̣Μ,TΑΓ,ΘΕ
    5̣ΔΟΡ

    Apparatus

    Legend and translation

    Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ/ Αρσενίῳ πρεσβυτέρῳ καὶ ἡγουμένῳ τοῦ ἁγίου Θεωδόρου.

    Mother of God, help your servant Arsenios presbyter and hegoumenos of the monastery of St Theodore.

    References

    Edition(s)
    Unpublished
    Parallel(s)
    Further references
    No further references

    Commentary

    Footnotes