Seal of Stephanos apo hypaton
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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-G7IqRp
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression.
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. XX
- Weight (g)
- XX
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Chipped at both ends of the channel with a larger missing section.
Dating
- Date
- 7th c., second half.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Stephanos (PLRE: Stephanus 42)
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
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection S-217
- 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 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the begenning of the legend. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the begenning of the legend. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- (1) Zacos Collection − Zacos1, 1007 A (no pictures);
(2) private collection − Metcalf2014, no. 970 ;
(3) DO BZS.1958.106.3736 − DOsealsOnline, BZS.1958.106.3736 ;
(4) DO BZS.1947.2.628 − DOsealsOnline, BZS.1947.2.628 . - Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Στεφάνου ἀπὸ ὑπάτων / δούλου τῆς Θεοτόκου.
(Seal of) Stephanos apo hypaton, servant of the Mother of God.
References
Commentary
Only similar seals from different boulloteria than ours are known, bearing the same inscription with different break lines or characters (see the similar seals here reported under parallels). According to Metcalf, the issuer of the seal published by him could be the same as the issuer of the seal in the Zacos Collection, who used another boulleterion[1].
Footnotes
[1]. Metcalf2014,p. 136 .