Seal of Theodoros spatharokoubikoularios and chartoularios
SigiDoc ID: s-WImtkl
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-UZHQmS
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression.
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- 8.5
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 6-12
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Chipped and open at the upper end of the channel on the reverse, effaced on either side; well centered.
Dating
- Date
- Mid-11th c.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- Theodoros (PBW: Theodoros 20174)
Milieu: Civil
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-97
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of the Mother of God with the medallion of Christ before her. Details indistinct. Sigla on either side.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Above, a decoration consisting of three dashes. Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
- [caption of the image]
- [caption of the image]
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- Geneve, Museum of Art and History, CdN 2004-366 (Zacos Collection) − Zacos2, no. 742 ; ZacosGenève, no. 27.
- Further references
- No further references
Reverse
Images
RTI
Edition
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει Θεοδώρῳ σπαθαροκουβικουλαρίῳ καὶ χαρτουλαρίῳ.
Mother of god help Theodoros spatharokoubikoularios and chartoularios.