Seal of Demetrios
SigiDoc ID: s-hfsgeY
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-88qXP4
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Weight (g)
- 6.6
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Beige patina, dented, struck off-centre to the right on the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- Late 13th c. – early 14th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private
- Issuer
- Demetrios
Milieu: Private
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-321
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography; Remnants of a legend on either side.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of St Demetrios holding a spear in his right hand and a shield in his left. Details indistinct.
- Decoration
- No border visible.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- No border visible.
- 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- Unpublished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
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1[Τ]ὸν
2ἁμαρτ-
3άνον(τα) Δ[η-]
4μήτριο[ν σ-]
5κέπε μ[ε]
a[Ὁ ἅ(γιος) Δη]μ(ή)τ b[ριος]
rev 1[Τ]ὸν
2ἁμαρτ-
3άνον(τα) Δ[η-]
4μήτριο[ν σ-]
5κέπε μ[ε]
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Δημήτριος / Τὸν ἁμαρτάνοντα Δημήτριον σκέπε με.
St Demetrios. Protect me, the sinful Demetrios.