Seal of Therdatos hypatos
SigiDoc ID: s-aDyNZ6
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-5Ng2by
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Weight (g)
- 7.7
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Red-green patina, corroded, slightly struck off-centre to the top, effaced
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., second half.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Therdatos
Milieu: []; Aristocracy
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-32
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of the Mother of God with her hands open before her breast. Sigla preserved at left.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Above the legend, remnants of a decoration consisting of a cross of dots set between two dashes. Τhe last line between two dashes. 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- Unpublished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
Θηρδάτος ὕπατος.
Therdatos hypatos.