Seal of Leon episkopos of Bryelon and synkellos
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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-LTr21F
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 15
- Weight (g)
- 4.1
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 7-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Grey patina.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical
- Issuer
- Leon
Milieu: Secular Church
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-16
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
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- Iconography
- Bust of the Mother of God with her hands upraised in prayer and the medallion of Christ before her (Episkepsis). Sigla on either side.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
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- Decoration
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- Epigraphy
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- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Parallel(s)
- DOsealsOnline BZS.1951.31.5.936 (former Fogg, no. 936) − DOseals3, no. 10.1 ; LaurentCorpus5.1, no. 282.
- Further references
- IFEB, no. 359 publishes in LaurentCorpus5.1, no. 281.
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. / Θεοτόκε βοήθει Λέοντι ἐπισκόπῳ Βρυέλου καὶ συγκέλλῳ.
Mother of God. Mother of God, help Leon episkopos of Bryelon and synkellos.
References
Commentary
The seal issuer is also attested on another seal type[1].
Footnotes
[1]. PBW, Leon 20232