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Seal of Ratibor
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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. 24.5
    Weight (g)
    10.97
    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
    1076-1125
    Internal date
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    Dating criteria
    Onomastics and epigraphy
    Alternative dating
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    History

    Category
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    Issuer
    Ratibor
    Issuer's milieu
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    Place of origin
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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
    91
    Acquisition

    Given to the museum by Oskar Shehim (Russe), who purchased it at the Constantinople market

    Previous locations

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    Modern observations

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    Obverse

    Language(s)
    Byzantine Greek
    Layout of field

    Field's dimensions (mm)
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    Matrix
    Onomastics and epigraphy
    Iconography
    Bust of Saint Clement (pope of Rome), blessing (r. hand) and holding the Holy Gospel (l. hand); on either side, vertical inscription
    Decoration
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    Epigraphy
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    Reverse

    Language(s)
    Old Russian
    Layout of field

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    Epigraphy
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    Images

    Edition

    Interpretive

    obv
    a (Ὁ ἅγιος) Κλη- - b μέ[ν]τ(ιος)
    rev
    1 ωт
    2 Рати-
    3 бора

    Diplomatic

    obv
    a |ΚΛ|Η - b Μ|Ε.|Τ
    rev
    1ΩΤ
    2ΡΤΗ
    3БΟΡ

    Apparatus

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    Legend and Translation

    Ὁ ἅγιος Κλημέντιος. Wт Ратибора

    From Ratibor

    References

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    Parallel(s)
    No parallels known
    Further references
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    Commentary

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    Footnotes

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