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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. 18
Weight (g): 8,97
Channel orientation (clock): 12-6
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Condition: Blank too small and clearly indented at the channel openings; slightly crushed on the reverse; clear engraving

Dating

Date: 7th C.
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Dating criteria: Epigraphy
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History

Category: Dignitaries
Issuer: Andreas (PBE: PBE Andreas 34)
Milieu: Civil
Gender: Male
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Find place: Adana (Adana)
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Modern location: Izmir (Turkey)
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Collection and inventory: Yavuz Tatış collection 3014
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Obverse

Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Cruciform monogram
Field dimensions (mm): Diam. 17
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Iconography: Cruciform monogram with numerous on either side of a central diamond-shaped Y. In this composition, we can recognise a invocative Marian monogram of the Laurent I type.
Decoration: Border of foliage
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Reverse

Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Cruciform monogram
Field dimensions (mm): Diam. 17
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Iconography: We recognise a Zacos 33-type composition
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Edition

obv

1 (Θεοτόκε βοήθει Ἀνδρέα)(?) vel (Θεοτόκε βοήθει Ἀνδρέᾳ)(?)

rev

2(ἀπὸ ἐπάρχων)

obv

Η––Ο–Τ–Ρ–Ν–Κ–Δ–Α–

rev

1Π–Ρ–Η––––Χ

Legend and translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει Ανδρέα (vel Ἀνδρέᾳ) / ἀπὸ ἐπάρχων.

Mother of God help Andrew, apo eparchon.

References

Edition(s): Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 188-189
Parallel(s): No parallels known
Further references: No further references