Artifact

Type

Seal

General layout

Iconography and legend

Matrix

Physical description

Medium

Original impression

Material

Lead

Shape

Round

Dimensions (mm)

Diam. 31

Weight (g)

20.76

Channel orientation (clock)

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Axis (clock)

―

Overstrike orientation (clock)

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Execution

Struck

Countermark

―

Condition

It appears to be in a poor state of preservation. Its letters are corroded and indistinct.

Dating

Date

1176-1225

Internal date

―

Dating criteria

Epigraphy―

Alternative dating

⸢―⸣ (), based on:

History

Category

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Issuer

Konstantinos Doukas

Issuer's milieu

Aristocracy

Place of origin

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Find place

― (village of Yana, Sofia region)

Find date

Find circumstances

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Modern location

― (village of Yana, Sofia region)

Institution and repository

National Archaeological Institute with Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, ―

Collection and inventory

― {IDNO}{MS_IDENTIFIER}

Acquisition

Donated by Metodi Nedyalkov Kondev (Yana), a teacher, in 1964

Previous locations

―

Modern observations

Although it has been assumed that because M. Kondev was a teacher in the village of Yana, the seal also originated from that same place, this cannot be confirmed.

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Obverse

Language(s)

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Layout of field

Field's dimensions (mm)

Diam. 31

Matrix

―

Iconography

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Decoration

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Epigraphy

{HAND_NOTE_EN}

Reverse

Language(s)

―

Layout of field

Field's dimensions (mm)

―

Matrix

―

Iconography

―

Decoration

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Epigraphy

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Edition