Seal of Tarasios hypatos1
SigiDoc ID: s-JOA4Mf
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-pegDeu
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Weight (g)
- 16.6
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
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- Condition
- Grey patina, slightly corroded.
Dating
- Date
- 8th c., before 730.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Tarasios
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 SB-1
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography; In the upper field, a cross at left and right. Legend on either side.
- Field dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
- The Mother of God standing, holding the Christ on her left arm (Hodegetria).
- Decoration
- No border visible.
- Epigraphy
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- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines.
- 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. No border visible.
- Epigraphy
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- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Feind2010, p. 77-78, no. 21 .
- Parallel(s)
- (1) Munich, Staatliche Münzsammlung, no. 329 (Zarnitz Collection) – Seibt1997, no. 3.1.5 ;
(2) Triton, Auction XI (8–9 January 2008), lot 1125, from the Robert E. Hecht Collection (= SBS_Auctions2007-2011, p. 188, no. 1125 );
(3) Tatis Collection, no. 3035 – CheynetTatış, no. 5.56 ;
(4) BnF, no. 753 (Zacos Collection) – mentioned in CheynetTatış, p. 224 . - Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Παναγία Θεοτόκε Σουβρίτων / βοήθει τῳ δούλῳ σου Ταρασίῳ ὑπάτῳ.
All-holy Mother of God of the Soubritai, help your servant Tarasios hypatos.