Seal of Ioannikios monachos and episkopos of Eumeneias
SigiDoc ID: s-UZrbIz
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-G8UfS7
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 16
- Weight (g)
- 4.5
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 5-11
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Grey patina, corroded, surface raised along the channel.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., second half.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical
- Issuer
- Ioannikios
Milieu: Monastic; Secular Church
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-152
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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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
- The first and the last line are between two dashes. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- (1) IFEB, no. 641 – LaurentCorpus5.1, no. 535 .
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοἠθει Ἰωαννικίῳ / μοναχῷ τῷ Εὐμενείας.
Mother of God, help Ioannikios monachos (and episkopos) of Eumeneia.
References
Commentary
The seal issuer is known only from this seal type. Laurent dates the seal type to the 10th century, which, however, cannot be confirmed by a palaeographic analysis.