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a ῾Ο ἅγιος - b Εὐστράτ(ιος)
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1 Σόν Εὐ-
2 στράτιε
3 Μιχαὴλ
4 δοῦλον
5 σκέποι[ς]
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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- General layout
- Iconography and legend
- Matrix
- ―
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19.5
- Weight (g)
- 5.58
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- ―
Dating
- Date
- 1076-1100
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography and epigraphy
- Alternative dating
- ―
History
- Category
- ―
- Issuer
- Michael
- Issuer's milieu
- ―
- Place of origin
- Selymbria
- Find place
- Selymbria
- Find date
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Sofia (Bulgaria)
- Institution and repository
- National Archaeological Institute with Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Numismatic fund
- Collection and inventory
- 131
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Trifon Kunev in 1953
- Previous locations
-
―
- Modern observations
-
It is not clear whether T. Kunev discovered the seal in 1912 and it was again him who donated it in 1953.
Obverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Field's dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- Iconography and epigraphy
- Iconography
- Saint Eustratios, standing, holding a spear (r. hand) and a shield resting on the ground (l. hand); on either side, vertical inscription
- Decoration
- ―
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Byzantine Greek
- Layout of field
- Field's dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- ―
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
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a Ο|Α|ΓΙ|ΟΣ - b Ε|Υ|ΣΤ|ΡΑ̣|Τ̣
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1
2ΣΟΕ
3ΣΤΡΑΤΙΕ̣
4ΙΧΑΗΛ̣
5ΔΟΥΛΟ̣
6Σ̣ΚΕΠΟ.
Apparatus
―Legend and Translation
῾Ο ἅγιος Εὐστράτιος. Σόν, Εὐστράτιε, Μιχαὴλ δοῦλον σκέποις
Saint Eustratios. Eustratios, may you protect your servant Michael
References
- Edition(s)
- ―
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- ―
Commentary
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Footnotes
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