Seal of Manouel, descendant of the Caesars
SigiDoc ID: s-GuRayo
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-k7Th1m
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression.
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20-28
- Weight (g)
- 11.9
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Corroded, broken in two halves along the thread channel with about two-thirds of the field missing.
Dating
- Date
- 12th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private
- Issuer
- Manouel
Milieu: Private
Gender: Male - 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-121
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- St George standing, holding a spear in his right hand. Remnants of a legend at left.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 7 lines with the last 2 lines missing.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- DO BZS.1955.1.3804 – Wassiliou-Seibt2016, no. 1470 ; DOsealsOnline, BZS.1955.1.3804 .
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
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1[Ἀ]θλητὰ
2[Γεώ]ργιε μαρ-
3[τύρ]ων κλέος
4[σκέπο]ις Μανου-
5[ὴλ ἔγ]γονον
6[τῶν Καισά-
7ρων]
aὁ ἅγιο[ς] b...
rev 1[Ἀ]θλητὰ
2[Γεώ]ργιε μαρ-
3[τύρ]ων κλέος
4[σκέπο]ις Μανου-
5[ὴλ ἔγ]γονον
6[τῶν Καισά-
7ρων]
Legend and translation
Ἀθλητὰ Γεώργιε, μαρτύρων κλέος, σκέποις Μανουὴλ ἔγγονον τῶν Καισάρων.
Champion George, glory of the martyrs, may you protect Manouel, descendant of the Caesars.
References
Commentary
The restitution of the final two lines is based on the reading of the parallel published online by Dumbarton Oaks. This reading contrasts with that proposed by Wassiliou-Seibt, who in her edition of the Dumbarton Oaks seal (listed under wrong number) attributes it to an issuer named Niketas.