Seal of Leon Blangas, strategos and anagrapheus of Seleukeia
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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-qQ5CAL
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19-23
- Weight (g)
- 10.9
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Grey-beige patina, cracked along the channel and open on the reverse, chipped on one side.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., third quarter.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Leon Blangas
Milieu: Military; Civil
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-23
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
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- Field dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. The last line is between a decoration consisting of a X with pellets in its quarter. Above and below, a dot between two dashes. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- ―
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- The last line is between a decoration consisting of a X with pellets in its quarter. Above and below, a dot between two dashes. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- (1) DO BZS.1951.31.5.1316 (former Fogg, no. 1316) – DOseals5, no. 6.1 , also published in DOsealsOnline, BZS.1951.31.5.1316 ;
(2) Gorny & Mosch, Auction 141 (10–11 October 2005), lot 3352 (= SBS_Articles2002-2006, p. 163, no. 3352 ); Hirsch, Auction 196 (24–27 September 1997), lot 1034 (= SBS_Articles1997-2001, p. 228, no. 1034 );
from a different boulloterion: (3) Istanbul, Archeological Museum, no. Ist. 911-10 – Istanbul, no. 3.105 ;
(4) Antakya, Hatay Archaeology Museum, no. 11175 – Cheynet1994, p. 426, no. 57 ;
No picture available for: (5) Munich, Staatliche Münzsammlung (Zarnitz Collection), no. 564, and
(6) Münz Zentrum, Auction 100 (8–10 September 1999), lot 818, no. 125 (are nos. 5 and 6 the same?) –
(5) mentioned in Seibt2005, p. 68, no. 50 . - Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Κὐριε βοἠθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Λέοντι στρατηγῷ / καὶ ἀναγραφεῖ Σελευκείας τῷ Βλάγγᾳ.
Lord, help your servant Leon Blangas, strategos and anagrapheus of Seleukeia.
References
Commentary
The seal issuer is known only from this seal type.