export asSigiDoc ID: s-zea4bu
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-k06FdM
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- 8,15
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 12-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Barely visible indentations at the openings of the channel; several letters crushed around the right side and on the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- 9th C. second half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- Gregory
Milieu: Civil
Gender: Eunuch - Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- İzmir (Turkey)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Yavuz Tatış collection 2928
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend: the invocative legend starts at 1, near the right-hand end of the crossbar
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Cross potent with a single crossbar, raised on three steps, not ornated
- Decoration
- Circle of dots; crosslet at the beginning of the circular legend
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of dots; crosslet at the beginning of the legend, on the same line
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
+ Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Γρηγορίǫ βασιλικῷ κουβικουλαρίῳ καὶ ἐπισκεπτίτῃ.
Lord help your servant Gregory, imperial koubikoularios and episkeptites.
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 2.25.
- Parallel(s)
- DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.2286
- Further references
- No further references