Seal of N. imperial protospatharios epi tou chrysotriklinou and strategos of Cephalonia and Nikopolis
SigiDoc ID: s-Ch4YVc
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-ixsetB
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20-23
- Weight (g)
- 7.2
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Slightly corroded, struck off-centre to the upper left on the obverse, blank too small for the die.
Dating
- Date
- mid-10th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration.
- Issuer
- N.
Milieu: Military
Gender: Male - Place of origin
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- Find place
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- Find date
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- Find circumstances
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- Modern location
- Cologne (Germany)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection Kr-1
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend; along the circumference, within concentric borders of dots, the circular inscription begins with a cross at 7 o'clock.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Patriarchal cross (with a X at the lower transverse bar) mounted on three steps. Fleurons on either side. In the upper field, a decoration of a pellet at left and right.
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines, the first line is missing.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- No border visible.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Feind2010, p. 171-173, no. 18 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
Edition
Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / … βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ χρυσοτρικλίνου καὶ στρατηγῷ Κεφαλληνίας καὶ Νικοπόλεως.
Lord, help your servant … basilikos protospatharios epi tou chrysotriklinou and strategos of Cephalonia and Nikopolis.