Seal of Constantine, (metropolitan) of Tiberioupolishide empty fields show empty fields
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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. 20
Weight (g): 6,54
Channel orientation (clock): 12-6
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Condition: Blank too small, indented at the channel openings; beautiful engraving

Dating

Date: 10th-11th C.
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Dating criteria: Epigraphy
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History

Category: Secular Church
Issuer: Constantine
Milieu: Secular Church
Gender: Male
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Modern location: Izmir (Turkey)
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Collection and inventory: Yavuz Tatış collection 2686
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Obverse

Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Iconography with legend in columns
Field dimensions (mm): Diam. 20
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Iconography: Saint Michael in full bust, with beautiful curly hair, wearing the right loros edged with large pearls, holding a globe in his left hand and a trifoliate sceptre in the other.
Decoration: Circle of pearls
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Reverse

Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Linear legend of 5 lines
Field dimensions (mm): Diam. 20
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Iconography: Legend preceded by a cross
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Edition

obv

^aΜ(ι) ^bχ(αήλ)

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1+ Κ(ύρι)ε βο-
2ήθει Κων(σταντίνῳ)
3ἐλαχήσ(τῳ)
4Τηβεριου-
5πόλεο[ς]

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rev

1ΚΕ̅Ο
2ΗΘΕΙΚ̅̅Ν̅
3ΕΛΑΧΗΣΤ
4ΤΗΕΡΙ
5ΠΟΛΕΟ.

Legend and translation

Μιχαήλ / + Κύριε βοήθει Κωνσταντίνῳ ἐλαχήστῳ Τηβεριουπόλεος.

Michael. Lord help Constantine, the smallest, metropolitan of Tiberioupolis.

References

Edition(s): Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 303
Parallel(s): No parallels known
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