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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-ohVA7V
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 30
- Weight (g)
- 18.7
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 7-11
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Green patina, corroded, struck off-centre to the left on the obverse.
Dating
- Date
- 8th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration.
- Issuer
- Niketas
Milieu: Civil
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-195
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Below the legend, a decoration consisting of tendrils. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Below the legend, a decoration consisting of tendrils. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
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- [caption of the image]
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- [caption of the image]
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
῾Αγία Τριὰς ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν βοήθη / Νικήτᾳ ὑπάτῳ καὶ διοικητῇ.
Holy Trinity, our God, help Niketas hypatos and dioiketes.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
-
(1) Zacos Collection – Zacos, 1, no. 956 ;
(2) BZS.1947.2.527 – DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1947.2.527 .
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
The issuer is known only from this seal type.