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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-pegDeu
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Weight (g)
- 16.6
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Grey patina, slightly corroded.
Dating
- Date
- 8th c., before 730.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Tarasios
Milieu: Aristocracy
Gender: Male
- 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 SB-1
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography; In the upper field, a cross at left and right. Legend on either side.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- The Mother of God standing, holding the Christ on her left arm (Hodegetria).
- Decoration
- No border visible.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. No border visible.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
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- [caption of the image]
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- [caption of the image]
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Παναγία Θεοτόκε Σουβρίτων / βοήθει τῳ δούλῳ σου Ταρασίῳ ὑπάτῳ.
All-holy Mother of God of the Soubritai, help your servant Tarasios hypatos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Feind 2010, p. 77-78, no. 21 .
- Parallel(s)
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(1) Munich, Staatliche Münzsammlung, no. 329 (Zarnitz Collection) – Seibt, Zarnitz, 1997, no. 3.1.5 ;
(2) Triton, Auction XI (8–9 January 2008), lot 1125, from the Robert E. Hecht Collection (= Auctions 2007-2011, p. 188, no. 1125 );
(3) Tatis Collection, no. 3035 – Cheynet, coll. Tatış, no. 5.56 ;
(4) BnF, no. 753 (Zacos Collection) – mentioned in Cheynet, coll. Tatış, p. 224 .
- Further references
- No further references