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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-GvzSs2
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 15-17
- Weight (g)
- 4.2
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 5-11
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Dark brown patina, corroded, chipped at both ends of the channel.
Dating
- Date
- Late 12th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private
- Issuer
- Basileios N.
Milieu: 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-359
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Three hares or rabbits chasing each other in a circle. They are joined by their ears thus forming a triangle in the centre of the "rabbit wheel”.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- 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
Βασιλέιος ὁ ..κα.ινος.
(Seal of) Basileios...
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
A possible reading of the family name could be Alkapinos/Alkabinos/Alkarinos/ Lakapinos.