Seal of Michael
SigiDoc ID: s-KSUxXk
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-yxDhmb
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 11-14
- Weight (g)
- 1.5
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Beige patina, slightly corroded, clipped at the bottom.
Dating
- Date
- 6th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private
- Issuer
- Michael
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-44
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Lion advancing toward left; in the upper field, a crescent with a star; in the lower field, a shell (?).
- Decoration
- Wreath (?) border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 2 mirror-inverted lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Wreath (?) border.
- 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- Unpublished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
Legend and translation
Μιχαὴλ.
(Seal of) Michael.