Seal of Basileios Pediadites, primikerios, koitonites, and praipositosshow empty fields
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    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    Matrix
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    Physical description

    Medium
    Original impression
    Material
    Lead
    Shape
    Round
    Dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 24
    Weight (g)
    6.1
    Channel orientation (clock)
    6-12
    Axis (clock)
    ―
    Overstrike orientation (clock)
    ―
    Execution
    Struck
    Countermark
    ―
    Condition
    Green-red patina, partially effaced, blank too small for the die.

    Dating

    Date
    11th c., second quarter.
    Internal date
    ―
    Dating criteria
    Epigraphy, Iconography
    Alternative date
    ―

    History

    Category
    Central administration.
    Issuer
    Basileios Pediadites
    Milieu: Civil
    Gender: Male
    Place of origin
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    Modern location
    Cologne (Germany )
    Institution and repository
    ―
    Collection and inventory
    Robert Feind Collection SB-28
    Acquisition
    ―
    Previous locations
    ―
    Modern observations
    ―

    Obverse

    Language(s)
    Layout of field
    Iconography
    Field dimensions (mm)
    ―
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    Bust of a saint, probably St Basil, offering a blessing with his right hand and holding a book in his left. Details indistinct. Traces of a legend on either side: A or B at left and O at right.
    Decoration
    Border of dots.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Reverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Legend of 5 lines.
    Field dimensions (mm)
    ―
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    ―
    Decoration
    Border of dots.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Images

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    RTI

    obverse

    Edition

    Interpretive

    rev
    1[Β]ασιλε[ίῳ]
    2[πρ(ιμι)]κ(ερίῳ) κυτ(ω)-
    3[νί]τ(ῃ) πρεπ(ο)-
    4[σί]τ(ω) το Π[ε-]
    5δ(ι)αδ(ί)τ(ῃ)

    Diplomatic

    rev
    1.Ασιλε.
    2...Κκυτ,
    3..τ̣Π̣ρεπ,
    4.ịΤ,τοπ.
    5Δ,ΑΔ,Τ

    Legend and translation

    Βασιλείῳ πριμικερίῳ κοιτωνίτῃ πρεποσίτω το Πεδιαδίτῃ.

    (Lord, help) Basileios Pediadites, primikerios, koitonites, and praipositos.

    References

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    Further references

    Commentary

    Basilieos Pediadites is well know from other sources: this seal shows the earliest known stages of his career[1].

    Footnotes

    [1]. PBW 2016, Basileios 106 .