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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. 19
Weight (g): 6,21
Channel orientation (clock): 12-6
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Condition: Overstrucked; indented at the channel orifices; off-centre striking; crushed and oxidised on both sides

Dating

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

Category: Secular Church
Issuer: Niketas
Milieu: Monastic
Gender: Male
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Modern location: Izmir (Turkey)
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Collection and inventory: Yavuz Tatış collection 2781
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Obverse

Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Iconography with legend in columns
Field dimensions (mm): Diam. 19
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Iconography: Saint Nicétas, front, in bust, holding the martyrs' cross in his right hand
Decoration: Circle of pearls
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Reverse

Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Linear legend of 5 lines
Field dimensions (mm): Diam. 19
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Iconography: Legend preceded by a cross.
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Edition

obv

^a(Ὁ ἅγιος) Ν[ική] ^bτας

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1+ Κ(ύρι)ε β(οή)θ(ει)
2τῷ σῷ δού(λῳ)
3[Ν]ικήτᾳ
4[(μον)αχ(ῷ)] (καὶ) συγ-
5κέλλῳ

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̣|Ν|...Τ|Α|Σ

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1ΚΕΘ
2Τ̣ΣΔ̣
3.ΙΚΗΤΑ
4.ΣΥΓ
5ΚΕΛΛ

Legend and translation

Ὁ ἅγιος Νικήτας / + Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νικήτᾳ μοναχῷ καὶ συγκέλλῳ.

Saint Niketas. Lord help your servant Niketas, monk and synkellos.

References

Edition(s): Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 317
Parallel(s): No parallels known
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