Seal of Theophylaktos anthypatos, patrikios, imperial protospatharios, and megas hetaireiarches
SigiDoc ID: s-ZOmcRh
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-kcoesG
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 23
- Weight (g)
- 7.9
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 5-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Red-grey patina, blank slightly too small for the die, struck off-centre.
Dating
- Date
- Mid-10th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Central administration.
- Issuer
- Theophylaktos
Milieu: Military
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-199
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography; Along the circumference, within a border of dots, the circular inscription begins with a cross at 7 o'clock.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- A peacock fanning its tail.
- 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- Unpublished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)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / Θεοφυλάκτῳ ἀνθυπάτῳ, πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ μεγάλῳ ἑταιριάρχῃ.
Lord, help your servant Theophylaktos anthypatos, patrikios, imperial protospatharios, and megas hetaireiarches.