Seal of Nikephoros
SigiDoc ID: s-aK2TIh
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-2pfrm3
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 11-19
- Weight (g)
- 5.9
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-11
- Axis (clock)
- 12h
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Well preserved and well centered.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., last third.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private
- Issuer
- Nikephoros
Milieu: Private
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- 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-3
- Acquisition
-
Auction
- 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 of the legend. Border of tight dots.
- Epigraphy
- Ζ retrograde
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Feind2010, p. 165, nο. 25.
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
obv
1Λό-
2γους
3σφρα-
4γίζω rev
5(καὶ) γρα-
6φὰς Νι-
7κηφό-
8ρου
1Λό-
2γους
3σφρα-
4γίζω
5(καὶ) γρα-
6φὰς Νι-
7κηφό-
8ρου
Legend and translation
Λόγους σφραγίζω / καὶ γραφὰς Νικηφόρου.
I seal the words and the letters of Nikephoros.