Seal of Herakleios patrikios
SigiDoc ID: s-YATlIx
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-1czLH6
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22-24
- Weight (g)
- 13.3
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 7-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Well centered, chipped at both ends of the channel at on one side.
Dating
- Date
- Late 7th c. – before 705.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Herakleios
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
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- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection S-4
- 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 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Below the legend, a tendril decoration. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Above the legend, a cross. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- (1) Marmaris Museum, no. 35.6.94 – Laflı2019, p. 351-352, no. 5 ;
(2) Triton, Auction XI (8–9 January 2008), lot 1129, from the Robert E. Hecht Collection (= SBS_Auctions2007-2011, p. 188, no. 1129 );
from different boulloteria: (3) Fogg 1421 (Zacos Collection) – Zacos1, no. 849a , mentioned in Laflı2019, p. 351, note 33 and Laflı2021, p. 21, note 66 ;
(4) DO BZS.1955.1.1997 (Zacos Collection) – Zacos1, no. 849b ; DOsealsOnline, BZS.1955.1.1997 ;
(5) (6) Bergama Museum nos. 2.7.99 and 5.7.99 – Laflı2021, p. 21-23, nos. 11 and 12 ;
(7) Münz Zentrum, Auction 142 (9–10 January 2008), lot 541; Münz Zentrum, Auction 138-139 (4–6 July 2007), lot 463 (= SBS_Auctions2007-2011, p. 174, no. 463 ); Schenk-Behrens Nachf., Auction 87 (20 February 2004), lot 530 (= SBS_Auctions2002-2006, p. 193, no. 530 ); Dr. Busso Peus, Auction 376 (29–30 October 2003), lot 1315 (= SBS_Auctions2002-2006, p. 182, no. 1315 );
(8) Obolos by Nomos, Web Auction 14 (15 December 2019), lot 652;
(9) Münzen Auktion Essen (Schenk-Behrens), stock list no. 7 (January 2001), lot 322; Münz Zentrum, Auction 107 (30 May – 1 June 2001), lot 277; Hirsch, Auction 209 (3–5 Mai 2000), lot 696;
(10) DO BZS.1958.106.2343 – DOsealsOnline, BZS.1958.106.2343 ;
(11) Körner Collection (Linz, Austria), no. 10 – unpublished, mentioned in Laflı2019, p. 351 and Laflı2021, p. 21, note 68 . - Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει / Ἡράκλείῳ πατρικίῳ.
Mother of God, help Herakleios patrikios.
References
Commentary
The issuer[1] was probably the brother of emperor Tiberios III Apsimaros and was appointed by him as commander-in-chief (monostrategos) of Asia Minor. He was captured and hanged after the return of Iustinianos II.