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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-jqaNdj
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19-21
- Weight (g)
- 3.7
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Chipped at both ends of the channel.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Iconography
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Central administration.
- Issuer
- Theodosios
Milieu: *untranslated*; Civil
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-570
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of St Nicholas offering a blessing with his right hand and holding the Book in his left. Legend on either side. Circular inscription beginning with a cross at 8 o’clock.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Below, a decoration consisting of a dot between two dashes. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
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- [caption of the image]
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- [caption of the image]
Edition
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Νικόλαος. Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / Θεοδοσίῳ βασιλικῷ νοταρίῳ καὶ πρωτονοταρίῳ.
St Nicholas. Lord, help your servant Theodosios imperial notarios and protonotarios.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
-
Athens, Numismatic Museum, no. 156 (Orphanides-Nikolaides Collection) − Koltsida-Makri, coll. Athens, 1996, no. 108.
- Further references
- No further references