Seal of Chrestos apo eparchon
SigiDoc ID: s-qLgfNu
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-6K70Ll
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- 9.1
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Corroded, small portion of channel open at the lower end of the obverse.
Dating
- Date
- early 7th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Chrestos (PmbZ: Chrestos 1077; )
Milieu: Private
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-265
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Iconography, Legend.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of the Mother of God holding the Child in her left arm. In the field on either side, a palm or cypress tree.
- Decoration
- Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- ―
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Parallel(s)
- Bucharest, Institute of Archaeology (Ion Mititelu Collection) – Barnea , Noi sigilii, no. 4 (= SBS 5, 1998, p. 90, no. 4) − Barnea1966, no. 4 (= SBS 5, 1998, p. 90, no. 4).
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Χρηστοῦ ἀπὸ ἐπάρχων.
(Seal of) Chrestos apo eparchon.
References
Commentary