Seal of Marianos imperial protospatharios and strategos of Dorostolon
SigiDoc ID: s-NzsMVz
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-izUxvC
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 23
- Weight (g)
- 10.9
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 5-11
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Green patina, corroded and partially effaced.
Dating
- Date
- After 971.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Iconography, Related seal
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration.
- Issuer
- Marianos
Milieu: []; Military
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-17
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Indeterminate border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Indeterminate border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Parallel(s)
- Pliska, Archaeological Museum, no. 70. − Jordanov2011, no. 1165A.
- Further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Μαριάνῳ / βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατiγῷ Δοροστόλου.
Lord, help Marianos imperial protospatharios and strategos of Dorostolon.