Seal of Michael patrikios, krites of the velum, of the hippodrome, and of Boleron, Strymon, and Thessalonike
SigiDoc ID: s-2dWCm6
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-5hiJJK
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Weight (g)
- 9.7
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Partially dented and effaced on both sides.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., third quarter.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Titulature, []
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Michael
Milieu: Civil
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Cologne (Germany)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection S_2
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Above the legend, a decoration consisting of a dot between two dashes. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ligature
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Feind2010, p. 151, no. 20.
- Parallel(s)
- Thessaloniki, Museum of Byzantine Culture, BMo 29/5 − Leontiades2006, no. 17.
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Μιχαήλ πατρικίῳ κριτῇ τοῦ βήλου / τοῦ ἱπποδρόμου Βολεροῦ Στρυμόνος καὶ Θεσσαλονίκης.
Lord, help your servant Michael patrikios, krites of the velum, of the hippodrome, and of Boleron, Strymon, and Thessalonike.