SigiDoc ID: s-LRUuXm
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-nidqdS
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 7-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Dented, cracked along the channel and open in the upper half on the obverse, hole on one side; blank too small for the die.
Dating
- Date
- Early 9th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Iconography
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration.
- Issuer
- Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Cologne (Germany )
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection SB-434
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- In the upper field, two imperial busts (details indistinct).
- Decoration
- No border visible.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- No border visible.
- Epigraphy
- ―
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Τῶν βασιλικῶν κομερκίων τῆς Θρᾴκης.
(Seal of) the imperial kommerkia of Thrace.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
-
(1)-(3) Zacos Collection – Zacos, 1, nos. 281a-c .
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
The restitution of the missing parts of the legend is based on the parallels.