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Artifact

Type: Seal
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Physical description

Medium: Original impression
Material: Lead
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Dimensions (mm): Diam. 21
Weight (g): 6,68
Channel orientation (clock): 12-6
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Condition: Notched at the top of the horizontal channel; blank too small; wear on both sides

Dating

Date: 11th C. (first half)
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Dating criteria: Epigraphy
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History

Category: Secular Church
Issuer: Basil
Milieu: Secular Church
Gender: Male
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Modern location: Izmir (Turkey)
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Collection and inventory: Yavuz Tatış collection 2104
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Obverse

Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Iconography with legend in columns
Field dimensions (mm): Diam. 21
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Iconography: Bust of a frontal saint, with unclear features, hair gathered at the top of the skull, holding the martyrs' cross in his right hand
Decoration: Border
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Reverse

Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Linear legend of 5 lines
Field dimensions (mm): Diam. 21
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Edition

obv

^a[.]ΚΟΔ ^b[...?...]

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1[Κ(ύρι)ε β(οή)θ(ει)]
2[τ]ῷ σῷ δού(λῳ)
3[Β]ασιλ(ε)ίῳ
4[ἐ]πισκόπ(ῳ)
5Μαγν(η)σ-
6[(ε)ί]α(ς)

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1....
2.Σ̣Δ
3.ΑΣΙΛΙ
4.ΠΙΣΚΟΠ
5Μ̣ΑΓΝΣ
6.Α̣

Legend and translation

... Κοδ / Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Βασιλείῳ ἐπισκόπῳ Μαγνησείας.

Lord help your servant Basil, bishop of Magnesia.

References

Edition(s): Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 299
Parallel(s): No parallels known
Further references: No further references