Seal of Bardas magistros, anthypatos, patrikios, imperial protospatharios, and domestikos of the Scholai
SigiDoc ID: s-IgVE45
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-Wc3qxU
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25-27
- Weight (g)
- 17.5
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 5-11
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Βeige patina, slightly struck off-centre to the upper right on the obverse and to the upper left on the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- 9th c., second half – early 10th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Iconography
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Central administration.
- Issuer
- Bardas
Milieu: []; Military
Gender: Male - Place of origin
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- Find place
- ―
- 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-35
- Acquisition
-
Auction
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Patriarchal cross mounted on three steps. Along the circumference, within concentric borders of dots, a circular inscription beginning with a cross at 12 o'clock.
- Decoration
- Cross at the begenning 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 and at the end of the legend. Above, remnants of a decoration; below, a decoration consisting of three 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- Unpublished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 βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / Βάρδᾳ μαγίστρῳ, ἀνθυπάτῳ, πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ δομεστίκῳ τῶν σχολῶν.
Lord, help your servant Bardas magistros, anthypatos, patrikios, imperial protospatharios, and domestikos of the Scholai.
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