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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
- Rectangular
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 17x13
- Weight (g)
- 4.98
- 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
- 0308-0324
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Iconography
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History
- Category
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- Issuer
- Licinius
- Issuer's milieu
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- Place of origin
- Serdica
- Find place
- Serdica
- Find date
- Find circumstances
- Excavations
- Modern location
- Sofia (Bulgaria)
- Institution and repository
- Regional Historical Museum – Sofia
- Collection and inventory
- MIS A 7377
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Discovered during excavations led by A. Stanev and P. Stoyanova at the site Lion’s Bridge Interchange – Metro Station 7-II (south part, east section), at the center of Sofia, on 11.08.2014.
Obverse
- Language(s)
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- Layout of field
- Field's dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
- Iconography
- Iconography
- Bust of emperor Licinius
- Decoration
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- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Ancient Greek
- Layout of field
- Field's dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
- Standing human figure, with crossed legs, supporting itself on a column and holding a cylindrical object; to the left, vertical inscription of 4 letters
- Decoration
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- Epigraphy
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Images
Edition
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Apparatus
―Legend and Translation
Μηνο(…)
Meno(…)
References
- Edition(s)
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- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
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Commentary
The legend perhaps shows a personal name (abbreviated), such as Μηνόδωρος among other possibilities.
Footnotes
On the excavations, see Stanev, Stoyanova 2015, p. 511-514; Boyadzhiev, Tranteev 2012, p. 311-313