Seal of Theodoros apo eparchon
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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-SJaU8K
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Weight (g)
- 10.6
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- 12h
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Grey patina, blank slightly too small for the die.
Dating
- Date
- 7th/8th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Theodoros
Milieu: Aristocracy
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-7
- Acquisition
-
Auction
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the begenning of the legend. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- Ζ retrograde
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- Tatis Collection, nο. 3021 – CheynetTatış, p.196, nο. 5.13, museum invetory nο. 3021.
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει/ Θεοδώρῳ ἀπὸ ἐπάρχων.
Mother of God, help Theodoros apo eparchon.
References
Commentary
A similar specimen (not a parallel) has been published by Cheynet [1].
Footnotes
[1]. See Istanbul, p. 399, nο.5.21.