Seal of Maria patrikia
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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-3pDFFh
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19-21
- Weight (g)
- 5.8
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- 12h
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Green patina, corroded, slightly struck off-centre to the left on the obverse, weakly imprinted.
Dating
- Date
- 10th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Iconography
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Maria
Milieu: []; Aristocracy
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
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- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
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- Modern location
- Cologne (Germany)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection S-1
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 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)
- Feind2010, p. 151, no. 19.
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθι τὴν σὴν δούλῃ Μαρήα πατρικήα.
Mother of God, help your servant Maria patrikia.
References
Footnotes