Seal of Basileios imperial protospatharios and genikos logothetes
SigiDoc ID: s-pfcL8j
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-QoFU6F
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Weight (g)
- 3,7
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 5-12
- Axis (clock)
- 12h
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Broken in two halves along the thread channel with one half missing.
Dating
- Date
- 9th c., second half – early 10th c.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- Basileios
Milieu: []; Civil
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-3
- Acquisition
-
Auction
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Patriarchal cross mounted on four steps. 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 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- A tendril decoration on a separate line above and below the legend. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- (1) Hannover, Museum August Kestner, no. L433.2015.43, on permanent loan by the Foundation of Lower Saxony (donation Zarnitz, former no. 1002) − SeibtWassiliou2015, p. 66-7, no. 43 ;
(2) Shumen, Regional Historical Museum, no. 1209 − Jordanov1992, p. 282, no. 5 (= SBS 6, p. 87, n. 5). Jordanov2006, p. 105-6, no. 8 . Shumen, p. 84-5, no. 198 ;
(3) Shumen, Regional Historical Museum, no.14842 − Jordanov2006, p. 105-6, n. 9 . Shumen, p. 84-5, no. 199 ;
(4) Shumen, Regional Historical Museum, no. 14964/3 − Shumen, p. 84-5, no. 201 ;
(5) Private collection N. Nikolov, Bulgaria − Jordanov2006, p. 105-6, no.10 ;
(6) Kherson, Historical and Archaeological Museum-Archive (HIAMZ ), С-75-96 − Alexeenko2003, p. 181, no. 17 (= SBS 10, p. 100, n. 17);
(7) Pliska, National Historical and Archaeological Site (INAR), no. 29 − Jordanov2015, p. 239, no. 42 ;
(8) A similar seal kept in Shumen, Regional Historical Museum, no. 14954/3 belongs to another seal type − Shumen, p. 84-5, no. 200 ; - Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
Edition
Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / Βασιλείῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ γενικῷ̣ λογοθέτῃ.
Lord, help your servant Basileios imperial protospatharios and genikos logothetes.
References
Commentary
The issuer is known only from this seal type.
Footnotes