Seal of Georgios Palaiologos Komnenos Doukas
SigiDoc ID: s-gZ0C7E
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-c5ZrcA
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 36
- Weight (g)
- 30.1
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Dark green patina, partially effaced, double-struck.
Dating
- Date
- 12th c., second half.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Private
- Issuer
- Georgios Palaiologos
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-357
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
- St George standing, holding a spear in his right hand and resting his left hand on a shield. Details indistinct. Legend on either side.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
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- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- (1) Munich, Staatliche Münzsammlung (Zarnitz Collection, no. 80) – Speck1986, no. 5 ; Seibt1997, no. 1.2.10 ;
(2) Dr. Busso Peus, Auction 376 (29–30 October 2003), lot 1411 (= SBS 10, 2010, p. 188, no. 1411); Münz Zentrum, Auction 90 (14–16 May 1997), lot 1055 (= SBS 8, 2003, p. 235, no. 1055); (3) Private collection, Požarevac, Serbia (seal found in Braničevo) – Ivanišević2018, p. 118, no. 8 . Only seal (3) seems to be from the same boulloterion as the seal here presented. - Further references
- Wassiliou-Seibt2011, no. 264 ; Feind2012, no. 190 .
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
ὁ ἅγιος Γεώργιος. / Γεωργίου σφράγισμα Παλαιολόγου Κομνηνοδουκόβλαστον αὐχοῦντος γένος.
St Georgios. Seal of Georgios Palaiologos, who proudly claims to be the offspring of the Komneno-Doukai family.