Seal of the imperial kommerkia of Thessaloniki
SigiDoc ID: s-pVi7Ai
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-AK1ikk
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- 12.5
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Dark beige patina, partially effaced, weakly imprinted, two holes in the upper part, blank too small for the die.
Dating
- Date
- 8th c., last quarter.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration.
- Issuer
- 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 SB-11
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Leo III, Constantine V, and Leo IV seated, each wearing a chlamys and a crown with cross.
- Decoration
- No border visible.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- In the upper field, Iconography; in the lower field, legend of 3 lines, the last line is missing.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Two imperial busts, probably Constantine VI and Irene. Details indistinct.
- Decoration
- No border visible.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Τῶν βασιλικῶν κομερκίων Θεσαλονίκης.
(Seal of) the imperial kommerkia of Thessalonika.