Seal of Bonosos
SigiDoc ID: s-avhOoR
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-I4RThn
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Weight (g)
- 7.0
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Grey beige patina, slightly chipped at both ends of the channel, blank too small for the die.
Dating
- Date
- Late 6th c. – early 7th c.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Private
- Issuer
- Bonosos
Milieu: Private
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 S-12
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 2 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Latin
- Layout of field
- Legend of 2 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
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- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- Similar seals are (1) Zacos Collection – Zacos1, nos. 763a ;
(2) DO BZS.1958.106.1118 – DOsealsOnline, BZS.1958.106.1118 ;
(3) DO BZS.1951.31.5.260 (Zacos Collection) – DOsealsOnline, BZS.1951.31.5.260 ; Zacos1, nos. 763b ;
(4) Istanbul, Archeological Museum, no. Ist. 490-1151 – Istanbul, no. 8.30 ;
(5) a seal excavated in Caesarea, Inv. 42/93, CC9000612,002. – Nesbitt1999, p. 131, no. 11 ;
(6) Münz Zentrum, Auction 73 (22–24 April 1992), lot 2049 (= SBS_Auctions1986-1992, p. 181, no. 2049 ; SBS_Auctions1991-1996, p. 145, no. 2049 ); Müller Münzenhandlung, Auction 72 (23 October 1992), lot 670 (= SBS_Auctions1991-1996, p. 142, no. 670 ). - Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Βονόσου / Bonosu.
(Seal of) Bonosos. (Seal of) Bonosos.
References
Commentary
According to PLRE3 , Bonosus was a scribon who served on the Danube frontier in 602,[1] or a comes orientis who was under Phocas' command in 609-610.[2]
Footnotes
[1]. PLRE3, Bonosus 1 .
[2]. PLRE3, Bonosus 2 .