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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-G8UfS7
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 16
- Weight (g)
- 4.5
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 5-11
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Grey patina, corroded, surface raised along the channel.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., second half.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical
- Issuer
- Ioannikios
Milieu: Monastic; Secular Church
Gender: Male
- Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Cologne (Germany )
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection S-152
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- The first and the last line are between two dashes. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
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- [caption of the image]
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- [caption of the image]
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοἠθει Ἰωαννικίῳ / μοναχῷ τῷ Εὐμενείας.
Mother of God, help Ioannikios monachos (and episkopos) of Eumeneia.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
-
(1) IFEB, no. 641 – Laurent, Corpus, 5.1, no. 535 .
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
The seal issuer is known only from this seal type. Laurent dates the seal type to the 10th century, which, however, cannot be confirmed by a palaeographic analysis.