Seal of Niketas episkopos of …
SigiDoc ID: s-Nuw1jn
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-NGAMHU
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19-21
- Weight (g)
- 8.2
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Green patina, dented, slightly struck off-centre to the right on the obverse and to the left on the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., last quarter – early 12th c.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical
- Issuer
- Niketas
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
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- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection SB-18
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
- Bust of St John the Baptist offering a blessing with his right hand and holding a scroll in his left. Legend on either side.
- Decoration
- No border visible.
- Epigraphy
- Inverted lettering.
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. No border visible.
- Epigraphy
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- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Ιωάννης ο Πρόδρομος / Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ν(ι)κήτα ἐπισκόπῳ…
St John the Baptist. Lord, help your servant Niketas episkopos of…
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