Seal of Konstantinos Potholinos, money-changer
SigiDoc ID: s-E5xS4Z
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-D2egbN
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression.
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Weight (g)
- 7.4
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
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- Condition
- Dented on the obverse, weak imprint.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., second half.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Undetermined
- Issuer
- Konstantinos Potholinos
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
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- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection SB-114
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
- Two standing saints (Peter and Paul?). Details indistinct. Traces of a legend at right.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
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- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear 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. The last line ist between two dots. Above the legend, a decoration consists of a dash and a dot. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
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- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- DOsealsOnline, BZS.1955.1.3267 .
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει Κωνσταντίνῳ τραπεζίτῃ το Ποθολινο.
Lord, help Konstantinos Potholinos, money-changer.