Seal of Symeon monachos
SigiDoc ID: s-JaDJDc
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-qhyMJv
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 28
- Weight (g)
- 14.3
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 5-11
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Beige patina, weakly imprinted, cracked along the channel and chipped at the lower end of it.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical
- Issuer
- Symeon
Milieu: Monastic
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
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- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection S-225
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Above and below the legend, a decoration consisting of a X with pellets in its quarters set between two dashes. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Above and below the legend, a decoration consisting of a X with pellets in its quarters set between two 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- Unpublished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
Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / Συμεὼν μοναχῷ.
Lord, help your servant Symeon monachos.