Seal of Basileios Pediadites, primikerios, koitonites, and praipositos
SigiDoc ID: s-HkJUil
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-2IMLjy
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 24
- Weight (g)
- 6.1
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Green-red patina, partially effaced, blank too small for the die.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., second quarter.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Iconography
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Central administration.
- Issuer
- Basileios Pediadites
Milieu: Civil
Gender: Male - Place of origin
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- Find place
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- Find date
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- Find circumstances
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- Modern location
- Cologne (Germany)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection SB-28
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of a saint, probably St Basil, offering a blessing with his right hand and holding a book in his left. Details indistinct. Traces of a legend on either side: A or B at left and O at right.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 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
Βασιλείῳ πριμικερίῳ κοιτωνίτῃ πρεποσίτω το Πεδιαδίτῃ.
(Lord, help) Basileios Pediadites, primikerios, koitonites, and praipositos.
References
Commentary
Basilieos Pediadites is well know from other sources: this seal shows the earliest known stages of his career[1].
Footnotes
[1]. PBW, Basileios 106 .