Seal of Ioannes hypatos
SigiDoc ID: s-wQE4Qs
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-zIZCl1
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 24-26
- Weight (g)
- 11.8
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Grey patina, corroded, chipped at the top and on one side, cracked along the channel on the reverse, struck off-centre to the right on the obverse, to the left on the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- 8th c., first half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Ioannes
Milieu: []; Aristocracy
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- 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 S-108
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Above and below, a decoration consisting of a cross between tendrils. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Above and below, a decoration consisting of a cross between tendrils. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει / Ἰωάννη ὑπάτω.
Mother of God, help Ioannes hypatos.
References
Footnotes