Seal of Basileios...
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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-GvzSs2
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 15-17
- Weight (g)
- 4.2
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 5-11
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Dark brown patina, corroded, chipped at both ends of the channel.
Dating
- Date
- Late 12th c.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Private
- Issuer
- Basileios N.
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
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- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection SB-359
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
- Three hares or rabbits chasing each other in a circle. They are joined by their ears thus forming a triangle in the centre of the "rabbit wheel”.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 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- Unpublished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)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Βασιλέιος ὁ ..κα.ινος.
(Seal of) Basileios...
References
Commentary
A possible reading of the family name could be Alkapinos/Alkabinos/Alkarinos/ Lakapinos.