Seal of Michael Lazaritzes
SigiDoc ID: s-dztD6j
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-02L5Zm
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Weight (g)
- 7.2
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- 12h
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Well preserved, well-centered imprint.
Dating
- Date
- 11th c., second half.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Iconography
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private
- Issuer
- Michael Lazaritzes
Milieu: Private
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Cologne (Germany)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Robert Feind Collection SB-4
- Acquisition
-
Auction
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend; along the circumference, within concentric borders of dots, the circular inscription begins with a cross at 12 o'clock.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of St. George holding a spear in his right hand and a shield in his left. Legend on either side.
- Decoration
- Cross at the beginning of the legend. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- Ζ retrograde
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend; along the circumference, within concentric borders of dots, the circular inscription begins with a cross at 12 o'clock.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of St. Michael with loros holding a sceptre in his right hand and a globus in his left. Legend on either side.
- Decoration
- Cross at the begenning of the legend. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Feind2010, p. 162, no. 24. Wassiliou-Seibt2011a, p. 255.
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
obv
1Σφραγὶ(ς) σῷζ(ε) τῷ Μι(χαὴλ) Λαζαρ(ί)τζι rev
2Φυλάττου με [ᾦ] συνώ(νυμε) ἡ(κε)σίες
aὉ ἅ(γιος) Γεόρ bγιο(ς)
obv 1Σφραγὶ(ς) σῷζ(ε) τῷ Μι(χαὴλ) Λαζαρ(ί)τζι
cὉ ἅ(γιος) Μ(ι) dχ(αή)λ
rev 2Φυλάττου με [ᾦ] συνώ(νυμε) ἡ(κε)σίες
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Γεόργιος. Σφραγὶς σῷζε τῷ Μιχαὴλ Λαζαρίτζι. / Ὁ ἅγιος Μιχαήλ. Φυλάττου με ᾦ συνώνυμε ἡκεσίες.
Saint George. Seal, save Michael Lazaritzes. Saint Michael. Watch over me, namesake, through (your) intercessions. (Wassiliou-Seibt)
References
Commentary
We follow the reading of Alexandra Wassiliou-Seibt [1].
Footnotes
[1]. Wassiliou-Seibt2011a, p. 255.