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(Μαυριανοῦ)
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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- General layout
- Iconography and monogram
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 15
- Weight (g)
- 4.25
- Channel orientation (clock)
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- Axis (clock)
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- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
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- Condition
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Dating
- Date
- 0501-0600
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Iconography and epigraphy
- Alternative dating
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History
- Category
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- Issuer
- Maurianos
- Issuer's milieu
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- Place of origin
- Anchialos
- Find place
- Anchialos
- Find date
- Find circumstances
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- Modern location
- Sofia (Bulgaria)
- Institution and repository
- National Archaeological Institute with Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Numismatic fund
- Collection and inventory
- 238
- Acquisition
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Purchased from Kiril Dimitrov (Burgas) in 1989
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Field's dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
- Iconography and epigraphy
- Iconography
- Cross; letters in the lower quarters
- Decoration
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- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Byzantine Greek
- 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
―Legend and Translation
[…] Μαυριανοῦ
[…] (Seal of) Maurianos
References
- Edition(s)
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- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
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Commentary
The block monogram contains several certain and a few uncertain letters. Not all of them are necessarily used to give the key word. From left to right: V, P (reverse), Ι, N (reverse), A, M, Λ, Ο. Excluding the Λ, the remaining letters form the name MAVPIANOV. The reverse N is attested, albeit rarely, in block monograms of the early period (e.g. Zacos, 1, plate 241, no. 438 and plate 245, no. 234A).
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