Seal of Bardas patrikios, imperial protospatharios, and strategos of Anatolikoi
SigiDoc ID: s-unRUaC
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-OaqhM5
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- 8.3
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Green patina, partially effaced, cracked along the channel.
Dating
- Date
- 10th c.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Iconography
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration.
- Issuer
- Bardas
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 Κr-10
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Patriarchal cross (with a X at the lower transverse bar) mounted on three steps. Fleurons on either side. Along the circumference, a circular inscription beginning with a cross at 7 o'clock.
- Decoration
- Cross at the begenning of the legend, border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Star at the beginning of the legend. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
Edition
Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / Βάρδᾳ πατρικίο, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ τῶν Ἀνατολικῶν.
Lord, help your servant Bardas patrikios, imperial protospatharios, and strategos of Anatolikoi.
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