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Offline NIKSOL

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seals for identification?
« on: October 27, 2018, 02:58:32 pm »
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Re: seals for identification?
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2018, 02:57:25 am »
some idea ...

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Re: seals for identification?
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2018, 05:56:50 am »
You got the obv. and rev. switched. The obv. invokes the Mother of God - "Servant of the Theotokos" (DOV/LOV TH[C]/THEOTO/KOV.

The rev. has the owner's name in a monogram. You got it upside down.* Why don't you (or anybody else) see for yourself if you make it out. It ends with the genitive -OV to indicate it is the seal "of ...." (-ou, not nominative -os). There are not too many letters and the name is well known.

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* If you realise that 99% of Byzantine seals have a die axis of 12.00 it is relatively easy to find the correct orientation of monograms when you have an inscription.

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Re: seals for identification?
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2018, 03:02:47 am »
thank you my friend for the info! are valuable !!! +++

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Re: seals for identification?
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2018, 03:06:11 am »
thank you my friend for the info! are valuable !!! +++
*to point out that the letters are Greek and not Latin

 

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