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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-GLSEqK
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 24
- Weight (g)
- 7.2
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Βeige patina, thin crack at the lower end of the channel on the obverse, flattened and effaced.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Iconography
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private
- Issuer
- Nikephoros Nesiotes
Milieu: *untranslated*; Private
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-278
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of St John the Baptist holding a long staff cross over his left shoulder. Details indistinct. No legend visible.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Above and below, a decoration consisting of a cross of dots set 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
Κύριε βοήθει Νικηφόρῳ τῷ Nησιώτῃ.
Lord, help Nikephoros Nesiotes.
References
- Edition(s)
- Parallel(s)
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- Further references
Commentary
The surname Nesiotes is a conjecture [1].
Footnotes
[1]. On the surname, see also Wassiliou-Seibt, 2011, no. 1232