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Artifact
- Type
- Matrix
- General layout
- Iconography and legend
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original die
- Material
- Bronze
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 43
- Weight (g)
- 24.203
- Channel orientation (clock)
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- Axis (clock)
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- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
- Cast
- Countermark
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- Condition
- There are no traces of a broken handle; perhaps the disc was attached to some device which permitted the user to hold and press it.
Dating
- Date
- 0945-0969
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Epigraphy
- Alternative dating
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History
- Category
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- Issuer
- Peter I
- Issuer's milieu
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- Place of origin
- Pliska
- Find place
- Pliska
- Find date
- Find circumstances
- Stray find
- Modern location
- Shumen (Bulgaria)
- Institution and repository
- Regional Historical Museum – Shumen
- Collection and inventory
- 1207
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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The artefact was found accidentally by the guard, T. Botev, in the dump soil from the excavations left by the western wall of the Small Palace of Pliska, on 05.05.1926.
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Medieval Bulgarian
- Layout of field
- Field's dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
- Iconography, Epigraphy
- Iconography
- Bust of tsar Peter I
- Decoration
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- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
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- Layout of field
- Field's dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
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- Epigraphy
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Images
Edition
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Apparatus
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Peter, tsar of the Bulgarians
References
- Edition(s)
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- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
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Commentary
Alternatively, the reading could be: П(е)тр(ъ) ц(эса)ръ бл(ъ)га(ромъ)
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