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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-bg6TFS
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
- Michael
Milieu: *untranslated*; Monastic; *untranslated*
Gender: Male
- Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- 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
-
- [caption of the image]
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- [caption of the image]
RTI
Edition
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- Unpublished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)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes