Seal of Theodoros I Laskaris

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Artifact

Type

Seal

General layout

Iconography and legend

Matrix

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Physical description

Medium

Bidimensional representation

Material

Lead

Shape

Round

Dimensions (mm)

Diam. 36-33.5

Weight (g)

31.98

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

1208-1222

Internal date

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Dating criteria

Iconography, Onomastics

Alternative dating

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History

Category

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Issuer

Theodoros I Laskaris

Issuer's milieu

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Place of origin

Veliko Tarnovo

Find place

Veliko Tarnovo

Find date

Find circumstances

Stray find

Modern location

Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria)

Institution and repository

Regional Historical Museum – Veliko Tarnovo

Collection and inventory

4166 M/TOM

Acquisition

Purchased from Maria Georgieva Stefanova (V. Tarnovo) in 1998

Previous locations

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Modern observations

According to the museum’s inventory book, the seal was found in the area to the west of V. Tarnovo. Jordanov 1999, p. 109, writes that it came from the area of “the present-day Cholakovtsi Housing Estate, to the west of Veliko Turnovo”, an information which cannot be verified. The Cholakovtsi neighbourhood is south-southwest of Tarnovo. The object has been missing from the museum (stolen) since 2006, something not mentioned by Jordanov in his later publications.

Obverse

Language(s)

Byzantine Greek

Layout of field

Field's dimensions (mm)

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Matrix

Iconography, Onomastics

Iconography

Standing figure of Christ, blessing (right hand), holding the Holy Gospel (left hand)

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

The emperor Theodore I Laskaris, standing, crowned, holding labarum (right hand) and globus cruciger (left hand)

Decoration

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Epigraphy

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Edition