Seal of John, anthypatos, patrikios, imperial protospatharios and logothete of the genikonshow empty fields
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    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    Matrix
    SigiDoc ID: m-jt5Ko2 - PBW ID:

    Physical description

    Medium
    Original impression
    Material
    Lead
    Shape
    Round
    Dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 22
    Weight (g)
    7,84
    Channel orientation (clock)
    ―
    Axis (clock)
    ―
    Overstrike orientation (clock)
    ―
    Execution
    Struck
    Countermark
    ―
    Condition
    Barely indented at the canal openings; oxidised on both sides.

    Dating

    Date
    9th C., last third
    Internal date
    ―
    Dating criteria
    Epigraphy, Parallel
    Alternative date
    ―

    History

    Category
    Central administration
    Issuer
    John (PmbZ: 23060; PmbZ: 22874)
    Milieu: Civil
    Gender: Male
    Place of origin
    ―
    Find place
    Kotiaeion (Opsikion)Kotyaeion (Kütahya)
    Find date
    ―
    Find circumstances
    ―
    Modern location
    Izmir (Turkey)
    Institution and repository
    ―
    Collection and inventory
    Yavuz Tatış collection 2695
    Acquisition
    ―
    Previous locations
    ―
    Modern observations
    ―

    Obverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Iconography with circular invocative legend starting at 7.
    Field dimensions (mm)
    ―
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    Small, unadorned patriarchal cross, on four steps engraved outside the nimbus surrounding the cross.
    Decoration
    A wreath of pearls encloses the field and another circle surrounds the iconography; the circular legend is placed between these two circles.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Reverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Linear legend of 5 lines
    Field dimensions (mm)
    ―
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    ―
    Decoration
    Wreath of pearls; a cross precedes the legend on the same line; a lozenge of pearls between two dashes precedes and follows the legend on two separate lines.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Edition

    Interpretive

    obv
    1[+]Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
    rev
    2+Ἰωάν(νῃ)
    3[ἀν]θυπ(άτῳ) πα[τ(ρι)-]
    4κ(ίῳ) β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθ(αρίῳ)
    5(καὶ) γενηκο͂ͅ
    6λογοθ(έτῃ)

    Diplomatic

    obv
    1ΚΕ̣Ο̣Η̣Θ̣ΗΤΣΟΥΛ
    rev
    
    2ΙΑΝ
    3..ΘΥΠ/ΠΑ.
    4Κ//ΑΣΠΑΘ
    5ϗΓΕΚΟ
    6ΛΟΓΟΘ/
    

    Legend and translation

    + Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Ἰωάννῃ ἀνθυπάτῳ πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ γενηκο͂ͅ λογοθέτῃ.

    Lord help your servant John, anthyparos, patrikios, imperial protospatharios and logothete of the genikon.

    References

    Edition(s)
    Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 2.34.
    Parallel(s)
    Débeltos, plusieurs exemplaires ; collection privée en Chersonèse: Alekseenko, 2003a, p. 79 ; Jordanov, 2006, p. 109-110, 25, 26, 27 = Jordanov, Corpus, 3, 783-785.
    Further references
    No further references