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Seal of Kosmas, bishop of Prousa
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Artifact

Type
Seal
General layout
Bilateral legend
Matrix

Physical description

Medium
Original impression
Material
Lead
Shape
Round
Dimensions (mm)
Diam. 21
Weight (g)
6.36
Channel orientation (clock)
Axis (clock)
Overstrike orientation (clock)
Execution
Struck
Countermark
Condition

Dating

Date
1001-1050
Internal date
Dating criteria
Epigraphy―
Alternative dating
⸢―⸣ (), based on:

History

Category
{SUMMARY_EN}
Issuer
Kosmas
Issuer's milieu
Secular Church
Place of origin
Pliska
Find place
Pliska (Pliska)
Find date
Find circumstances
Excavations
Modern location
Pliska (Pliska)
Institution and repository
National Archaeological Institute with Museum – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, ―
Collection and inventory
― {IDNO}{MS_IDENTIFIER}
Acquisition

Previous locations

Modern observations

Discovered during excavations at the Palace Square (NW sector, square 2) in Pliska, in August 2005.

Obverse

Language(s)
Layout of field

Field's dimensions (mm)
Diam. 21
Matrix
Iconography
{FIGURE_R_EN}
Decoration
{FIGURE_DECOR_EN}
Epigraphy
{HAND_NOTE_EN}

Reverse

Language(s)
Layout of field

Field's dimensions (mm)
Matrix
Iconography
Decoration
Epigraphy

Images

Edition

Interpretive

obv
1 Κ(ύρι)ε
2 [β]οήθι
3 [τ]ῷ σῷ
4 δούλ(ῳ)
rev
1 Κοσμᾶ
2 [ἐ]πισκό-
3 πῳ Πρού-
4 σης

Diplomatic

obv
1̣Ε
2.ΟΗΘΙ
3.Σ
4Λ,
5
rev
1 ̣ΟΣΜ
2.ΙΣΟ
3̣̣
4ΣΗΣ
5

Apparatus

Legend and Translation

[plain Greek or Latin... text here]

References

Edition(s)
Parallel(s)
No parallels known
Further references

Commentary

Footnotes