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Seal of Theophylaktos, patriarch
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    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    General layout
    Iconography and legend
    Matrix
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    Physical description

    Medium
    Original impression
    Material
    Lead
    Shape
    Round
    Dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 25
    Weight (g)
    10.67
    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
    0933-0956
    Internal date
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    Dating criteria
    Onomastics
    Alternative dating
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    History

    Category
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    Issuer
    Theophylaktos
    Issuer's milieu
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    Place of origin
    Preslav
    Find place
    Preslav
    Find date
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    Modern location
    Sofia (Bulgaria)
    Institution and repository
    National Archaeological Institute with Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Numismatic fund (displayed in the permanent exhibition)
    Collection and inventory
    245
    Acquisition

    Purchased from Emil Kosev (Shumen) in 1994

    Previous locations

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    Modern observations

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    Obverse

    Language(s)
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    Layout of field

    Field's dimensions (mm)
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    Matrix
    Onomastics
    Iconography
    Bust of Mother of God, type Nikopoios
    Decoration
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    Epigraphy
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    Reverse

    Language(s)
    Byzantine Greek
    Layout of field

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    Iconography
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    Decoration
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    Epigraphy
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    Images

    Edition

    Interpretive

    obv
    1 Θε[οτ]όκε βοήθει
    rev
    1 Θεοφυ-
    2 [λ]άκτῳ ἀρ-
    3 χιεπισκό-
    4 π(ῳ) Κωνσταν-
    5 τ(ινου)πόλ(εως) Νέα(ς)
    6 Ῥώμης

    Diplomatic

    obv
    1ΘΕ.Ο̣Ε̣ΟΗΘΕΙ
    rev
    1ΘΕΟΥ
    2.ΑΤ,ΑΡ̣
    3ΧΙΕΠΙΣΟ̣
    4Π,ΝΣΤΑΝ
    5Τ,ΠΟΛ,ΕΑ⸊
    6ΜΗΣ

    Apparatus

    L. 6: Κέα(ς)

    Legend and Translation

    Θεοτόκε βοήθει Θεοφυλάκτῳ ἀρχιεπισκόπῳ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως Νέας Ῥώμης

    Mother of God, aid Theophylaktos, archbishop of Constantinople, the New Rome

    References

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    Parallel(s)
    No parallels known
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    Commentary

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    Footnotes

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