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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. 32
- Weight (g)
- 17.89
- 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
- The disc has been broken and only half of it survived.
Dating
- Date
- 1237-1253
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Onomastics
- Alternative dating
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History
- Category
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- Issuer
- Theodoros Komnenos Doukas Angelos
- Issuer's milieu
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- Place of origin
- Veliko Tarnovo
- Find place
- Veliko Tarnovo
- Find date
- Find circumstances
- Excavations
- Modern location
- Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgaria)
- Institution and repository
- Regional Historical Museum – Veliko Tarnovo
- Collection and inventory
- 7348 S/TOM
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Discovered during excavations led by D. Rabovyanov at Veliko Tarnovo, Trapezitsa, South sector, square CLVII-12, in September 2010. The layer where the seal was found is later though, from the middle and second half of the 14th c.
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Byzantine Greek
- Layout of field
- Field's dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
- Iconography, Onomastics
- Iconography
- Standing figure of saint Theodoros Stratelates; on either side, vertical inscription
- 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
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- Decoration
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- Epigraphy
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Images
Edition
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Apparatus
L. 1: the text begins with a crossLegend and Translation
Ὁ στρατηλάτης. Θεοδώρου […] δεσπότου τοῦ Κομνηνοῦ
Stratelates. (Seal of) Theodoros Komnenos, despotes
References
- Edition(s)
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- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
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Commentary
Following the arrangement of letters within the available space, as well as their alignment, it becomes clear that between the name, which ends in the second row, and the title, which probably begins in the third row, there is enough space for two letters (or more, if there is a ligature). A logical guess would be the article τοῦ.
Footnotes
On the excavation, see Rabovyanov 2010, p. 103-122