Seal of the imperial kommerkia of Thrace
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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-nidqdS
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
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- Weight (g)
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- Channel orientation (clock)
- 7-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Dented, cracked along the channel and open in the upper half on the obverse, hole on one side; blank too small for the die.
Dating
- Date
- Early 9th c.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Iconography
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration.
- Issuer
- 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-434
- 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
- In the upper field, two imperial busts (details indistinct).
- Decoration
- No border visible.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
- No border visible.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- (1)-(3) Zacos Collection – Zacos1, nos. 281a-c .
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Τῶν βασιλικῶν κομερκίων τῆς Θρᾴκης.
(Seal of) the imperial kommerkia of Thrace.
References
Commentary
The restitution of the missing parts of the legend is based on the parallels.