Seal of Theodoros Megalommates
SigiDoc ID: s-btw4zc
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-08lbrs
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 34
- Weight (g)
- 25.2
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Brown patina, dented, weakly imprinted.
Dating
- Date
- 12th c., second half – 13th c., first half.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private
- Issuer
- Theodoros Megalommates
Milieu: Private
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- 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-295
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- St Theodore standing, holding a spear in his right hand and resting his left hand on a shield. Legend on either side.
- Decoration
- No border visible.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 7 lines, the last line is missing.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. No border visible.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- (1) Geneve, Museum of Art and History, CdN 2004-558 (Zacos Collection) – ZacosGenève, no. 354a ; Spink, Auction 135 (6 October 1999), lot 314;
(2) Munich, Staatliche Münzsammlung (Zarnitz Collection) – Seibt1997, no. 4.1.8 ; Münz Zentrum, Auction 77 (13–15 April 1994), lot 1181 ( SBS_Auctions1991-1996, p. 151, no. 1181 ); Schenk-Behrens Nachf., Auction 65 (26-28 May 1993), lot 892;
(3) Geneve, Museum of Art and History, CdN 2004-213 (Zacos Collection) – ZacosGenève, no. 354b ;
(4) Triton, Auction XI (8–9 January 2008), lot 1198, from the Robert E. Hecht Collection ( SBS_Auctions2007-2011, p. 195, no. 1198 ); Gorny & Mosch, Auction 152 (9–10 January 2006), lot 2713 ( SBS_Auctions2002-2006, p. 167, no. 2713 ); Künker, Auction 25 (29 September – 01 October 1993), lot 572 ( SBS_Auctions1991-1996, p. 138, no. 572 );
(5) Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 376 (15 June 2016), lot 599;
(6) Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 111 (29 May 2019), lot 882, from the Gert Boersema Collection;
(7) Classical Numismatic Group, Auction 114 (13 May 2020), lot 1063, from the Exarch Collection. - Further references
- Wassiliou-Seibt2011, no. 1418 ; Feind2012, no. 1001 .
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
obv
1Μ[εγα-
2λ]ομμάτ[ου
3τ]άς γραφάς
4[Θεο]δ[ώρ]ου στή[ρι-
5ζ]ε [Θεό]δωρε
6μα[ρτύρ(ων) κλ-
7έος]
aὁ ἅγ[ι]ο[ς] bΘεόδωρ[ος]
rev 1Μ[εγα-
2λ]ομμάτ[ου
3τ]άς γραφάς
4[Θεο]δ[ώρ]ου στή[ρι-
5ζ]ε [Θεό]δωρε
6μα[ρτύρ(ων) κλ-
7έος]
Legend and translation
ὁ ἅγιος Θεόδωρος. / Μεγαλομμάτου τάς γραφάς Θεοδώρου στήριζε Θεόδωρε μαρτύρων κλέος.
St Theodoros. Theodoros, Glory of the Martyrs, defend the writings of Theodoros Megalommates.