Seal of Ioannes, kouboukleisios and notarios

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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. 27

Weight (g)

10.99

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

0976-1025

Internal date

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Dating criteria

Iconography

Alternative dating

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History

Category

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Issuer

Ioannes

Issuer's milieu

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Place of origin

Preslav

Find place

Preslav

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

251

Acquisition

Purchased from Emil Kosev (Shumen) in 1994

Previous locations

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Modern observations

It is not known whether E. Kosev discovered the seal or he was simply the one who presented it to the museum. In the Corpus of 2009 and the Museum Catalogue of 2011, Jordanov writes that the seal “was passed on to the Archaeological Museum by E. Kosev in 1984”, but in Jordanov, 2006, 353, the author says that the seal with inventory number 251 was purchased by that person in 1994.

Obverse

Language(s)

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Layout of field

Field's dimensions (mm)

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Matrix

Iconography

Iconography

Patriarchal Cross, on three steps, with X at the intersection of the arms and a hizontal line forming a crosslet on top, flanked by floral decoration reaching to the crosslet

Decoration

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Epigraphy

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Reverse

Language(s)

Byzantine Greek

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Decoration

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Epigraphy

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Edition