Seal of Niketas chartophylax
SigiDoc ID: s-Vq8ihp
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-hvT6GN
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 27-30
- Weight (g)
- 16.0
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Light green patina, chipped at both ends of the channel and at on one side, hole in the centre.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., second half.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical
- Issuer
- Niketas
Milieu: Secular Church
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-261
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of the Mother of God (Hodegetria) holding the Child in her left arm. Sigla preserved at left.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- A cross at the beginning of the legend. Above, a decoration consisting of a dot between two dashes.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Parallel(s)
- (1) Athens, Benaki Museum − LaurentCorpus5.1, no. 93;
(2) DO BZS.1947.2.290 (Shaw Collection, no. 1115, former Mordtmann) − LaurentCorpus5.1, no. 93 − DOsealsOnline, BZS.1947.2.290 ;
(3) Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum − LaurentCorpus5.1, no. 93 − Lihačev1911, p. 13, table V, no. 12 − Laurent1932, no. 251;
(4) Geneve, Museum of Art and History, CdN 2004-323 (Zacos Collection) − Zacos2, no. 647 − ZacosGenève, no. 260;
(5) Zacos Collection − CNG, Auction 99 (13 May 2015), lot 852, from the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection − The New York Sale, Auction 4 (17 January 2002), lot 445. − Spink, Auction 127 (7 October 1998), lot 37;
(6) (7) BnF nos. 3228 and 3229 (Zacos Collection) − mentioned in ZacosGenève, p. 296 and CheynetTatış, p. 281, unpublished;
(8) Aphrodisia, acc. no. 68.410 − Nesbitt1983, p. 162, no. 7 (= SBS 5, 1998, p. 177, no. 7);
(9) Tatis Collection, no. 2640 − CheynetTatış, no. 6.4. Further references: Wassiliou-Seibt2016, no. 1476 − Feind2012, no. 1046 − Ludwig1987 , p. 235 − Wassiliou-Seibt2017, p. 202-211 − Cheynet2008b, p. 57;
(10) Münz Zentrum, Auction 78 (7–9 September 1994), lot 805 (= SBS 6, 1999, p. 152, no. 805); Hirsch, Auction 181 (22–25 February 1994), lot 1034o (= SBS 6, 1999, p. 125, no. 1034o);
(11) Münz Zentrum, Auction 91 (4–5 September 1997), lot 797 (= SBS 8, 2003, p. 235, no. 797), no picture
(12) Numismatik Naumann, Auction 56 (6 August 2017) lot 805 .
Seals nos. (5) and (10) are parallels to ours - Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
obv
1Νική-
2ταν Ἁγνή
3χαρ[τ]οφ[ύ-]
4λακα σκ[έ-]
5ποις
aΜ(ήτη)ρ b[Θ(εο)ῦ]
rev 1Νική-
2ταν Ἁγνή
3χαρ[τ]οφ[ύ-]
4λακα σκ[έ-]
5ποις
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ / Νικήταν ῾Αγνή χαρτοφύλακα σκέποις.
Mother of God. Pure one, may you protect Niketas chartophylax.
References
Commentary
The chartophylax Niketas, is attested on another, less frequent seal type , which shows on the obverse a standing Hagiosoritissa and on the reverse the same legend as on the seal here presented [1].
Footnotes
[1]. See Robert Feind Collection, SB-292 .