Seal of Ιoannes tourmarches of Opsikion
SigiDoc ID: s-vzEFeJ
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-NDSMgR
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Weight (g)
- 5.3
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Green patina, corroded, struck off-centre to the upper left on the obverse and to the upper right on the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- late 10th c. - early 11th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Ioannes
Milieu: Military
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
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- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Cologne (Germany)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection SB-146
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of the Mother of God with her hands open before her breast. Sigla and on either side. Traces of a circular inscription.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- 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- Unpublished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
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ / Ἰωάννῃ βασιλικῷ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ καὶ τρομαρχῃ Ὀψηκίου.
Mother of God. Ioannes spatharokandidatos and tourmarches of Opsikion.