Seal of Artemios hypatos
SigiDoc ID: s-lajVs2
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-Ird4aM
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Weight (g)
- 11.9
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Corroded, blank too small for the die.
Dating
- Date
- late 7th c. – early 8th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Artemios (PmbZ: Artemios 646; PLRE: vol III, Artemius)
Milieu: Private
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-290
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning and at the end of the legend. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- ―
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning and at the end of the legend. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Parallel(s)
- (1) DOsealsOnline, BZS.1955.1.1938 ;
(2) BnF, no. 1359 (Zacos Collection) − Zacos1, no. 2861 ;
(3) Hannover, Museum August Kestner, no. L433.2015.33 (Zarnitz Collection) − Sode1997, no. 436 − SeibtWassiliou2015, no. 33 − Münz Zentrum, Auction 161 (11–12 January 2012), lot 796;
(4) (5) private collection(s), Berlin − Sode1997, no. 437-438 ;
(6) Istanbul, Archaeological Museum, no. Ist. 1612-681 − Istanbul, no. 5.50 ;
(7) Tatis Collection, no. 2637 − CheynetTatış, no. 5.38 ;
(8) Köhler-Osbahr Collection, no. 13/83/2,11 − Köhler-Osbahr, no. 23 (= SBS_Auctions1997-2001, p. 206, no. 23 ) ;
(9) Wassiliou-Seibt Collection, no. 327 − unpublished, mentioned in SeibtWassiliou2015, p. 55, footnote 131 ;
(10) Wien, Institute for numismatics, no. 1393 − mentioned in SeibtWassiliou2015, p. 55, footnote 131 ;
(11) Münz Zentrum, Auction 65 (9 November 1988), lot 1740 (= SBS_Auctions1986-1992, p. 179, no. 1740 );
(12) Italo Vecchi, Auction 13 (4 September 1998), lot 1305;
(13) Hirsch, Auction 271 (17–19 February 2011), lot 2665 (= SBS_Auctions2007-2011, p. 165, no. 2665 ). - Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
Edition
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθη / Ἀρτεμίῳ ὑπάτῳ.
Mother of God, help Artemios hypatos.
References
Commentary
The seal issuer is known from this seal type.