Seal of Stephanos ostiarios and chartoularios
SigiDoc ID: s-QRPFO4
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-wrSrnc
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression.
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- 8.5
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Partially effaced on either side.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., first half.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Central administration.
- Issuer
- Stephanos
Milieu: Civil
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
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection SB-110
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- IconographyΕικονογραφία
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
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- Iconography
- Bust of the Mother of God holding the Child on her left arm (Hodegetria). Details indistinct. Traces of a sigla on either side.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- The last line is between two dashes (preserved at right). Border of dots.
- 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- Unpublished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
Στέφανος ὠστιάριος καὶ χαρτουλάρηος.
Stephanos ostiarios and chartoularios.
References
Commentary
The legend can be interpreted in two distinct ways. One possibility is that both the dative (Stephanos and ostiarios, written with an omicron) and the nominative (chartoularios) are mixed in the text. An alternative interpretation is that the nominative is used throughout, with the name and the title of the issuer written without the sigma, i.e. abbreviated.