Seal of Theophanios imperial protospatharios and strategos of Cherson
SigiDoc ID: s-Y2QGWl
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-btVUAG
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 12-22
- Weight (g)
- 4.0
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- broken in two halves along the thread channel with one half missing, corroded.
Dating
- Date
- 9th c., second half - early 10th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Iconography
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration.
- Issuer
- Theophanios
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-102
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend; along the circumference, the circular inscription begins with a cross at 7 o'clock.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Patriarchal cross mounted on three steps.
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross 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- Unpublished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 / Θεοφανίο βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Χερσόνος.
Lord, help your servant Theophanios imperial protospatharios and strategos of Cherson.