Seal of the kensor
SigiDoc ID: s-n6kdZn
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-IjVzEP
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 18
- Weight (g)
- 4.5
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- 12h
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Corroded and chipped on one side, partially effaced on the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., last third.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- Anonymous
Milieu: []; Civil; []
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- 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-216
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Above the legend, a cross between dashes; below, remnants of a decoration consisting of two dashes (?). Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Above the legend, a decoration with a dot between dashes. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
obv
1Σφρα-
2γὶς πέ-
3φυκ[α] rev
4τοῦ κέν-
5[σ]ορος
6[τ]ῶν λό-
7γων
1Σφρα-
2γὶς πέ-
3φυκ[α]
4τοῦ κέν-
5[σ]ορος
6[τ]ῶν λό-
7γων
obv
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1ΣΡΑ
2ΓΙΣΠΕ
3φΥΚ.
rev
4ΤΚΕΝ
5.Ο̣ΡΟΣ
6.ΝΛΟ
7ΓΝ
+
1ΣΡΑ
2ΓΙΣΠΕ
3φΥΚ.
4ΤΚΕΝ
5.Ο̣ΡΟΣ
6.ΝΛΟ
7ΓΝ
Legend and translation
Σφραγὶς πέφυκα / τοῦ κένσορος τῶν λόγων.
I am the seal of the words of the kensor.