Seal of Michael protospatharios, krites epi tou hippodromou, and anagrapheus of the Aigeon Pelagos
SigiDoc ID: s-HrDc6z
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-elSeW5
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 24-27
- Weight (g)
- 10.0
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Slightly struck off-centre to the right on the obverse, struck off-centre to the left on the reverse; weakly imprinted.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., first third.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Michael
Milieu: Civil
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-193
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of archangel Michael holding a sceptre in his right hand and a shield in his left. Details indistinct. No legend visible.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- Zacos Collection (current location unknow) – Zacos2, no. 593.
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Μιχαὴλ πρωτοσπαθάριος κριτὴς ἐπὶ τοῦ ἱπποδρόμου καὶ ἀναγραφεὺς τοῦ Αἰγαίου Πελάγους.
Michael protospatharios, krites epi tou hippodromou, and anagrapheus of the Aigeon Pelagos.
References
Commentary
The issuer is known only from this seal type.