Seal of Niketas patrikios, krites of the velum, Chaldia, and Derzene, and anthropos of our holy emperor
SigiDoc ID: s-IKiP7D
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-DobFYt
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 23-25
- Weight (g)
- 17.0
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 8-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Struck off-centre to the right on the obverse and struck off-centre to the left on the reverse, with more than half of the field missing; partly effaced.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., third quarter.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- [], Epigraphy, Titulature, Related seal
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration.
- Issuer
- Niketas
Milieu: Civil
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Cologne (Germany)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection SB-196
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- The Mother of God standing, holding Christ on her right arm (Dexiokratousa). Details indistinct. Sigla preserved at left.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Parallel(s)
-
- Further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ / Θεοτόκε βοήθει Νικήτᾳ πατρικίῳ, κριτῇ τοῦ βήλου, Χαλδίας καὶ Δερζηνῆς καὶ ἀνθρώπου τοῦ βασιλέως ἡμῶν τοῦ ἁγίου.
Mother of God. Mother of God, help Niketas patrikios, krites of the velum, Chaldia, and Derzene, and anthropos of our holy emperor.