Seal of Michael Goudeles
SigiDoc ID: s-3Ijg4U
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-XjcEoX
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Weight (g)
- 7.2
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 7-11
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Green patina, dented, struck off-centre to the right on the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., second half.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private
- Issuer
- Michael Goudeles
Milieu: Private
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-19
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Iconography; Remnants of a legend at right.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of the archangel Michael with loros holding a trefoil sceptre in his right hand and a globus in his left.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
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- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. The last line is between two dashes. 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- Unpublished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
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Μιχαήλ το Γουδέλῃ.
Lord, help your servant Michael Goudeles.