Seal of Maurianos apo hypaton
SigiDoc ID: s-FI6Ccx
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-pj7JoM
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- 7.8
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Grey-beige patina, corroded, struck off-centre to the lower left on the obverse and to the lower right on the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- 6th c., second half – early 7th c.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Maurianos
Milieu: []; Aristocracy
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
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- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection S-13
- 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 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- (1) Sode1997, no. 432 ;
(2) Zacos1, no. 2902 ;
(3) Müller Munzenhandlung, Auction 68 (20–21 September 1991), lot 585 (= SBS 3, 1993, p. 197, no.585);
(4) Kölner Münzkabinett, Auction 55 (7–8 April 1992), lot 506 (= SBS 3, 1993, p. 187, no. 506);
(5) Schlumberger1891, p. 131, no. 68 (no picture). Seals (1)-(4) are not from the same boulloterion as ours, with different line breaks. - Further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Μαυριανοῦ/ ἀπὸ ὑπάτων.
(Seal) of Maurianos apo hypaton.
References
Commentary
The seal issuer is known only from this seal type.