Authentic Ancient Medieval 1100-1300 Byzantine Document Seal Artifact i56063

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Authentic Ancient Medieval Byzantine Seal Artifact circa  1100-1300 A.D. Material: Lead | Size: 24mm | 18.97 grams Monogram. Inscription in 3 lines. Seals like this were used to seal documents with an imprint on wax, or used to  sign a document. Interesting how this seal has what looks like a whole name  written on it. Provenance: From private collection in the United States of America. Ownership History: From private collection in the United States, bought in  private sale in the United States of America.    You are bidding on the exact  item pictured, provided with a Certificate of Authenticity and Lifetime  Guarantee of Authenticity.

A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or  some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression  thus made. The original purpose was to authenticate a document, a wrapper for  one such as a modern envelope, or the cover of a container or package holding  valuables or other objects.

The seal-making device is also referred to as the seal matrix or die ; the imprint it creates as the seal impression (or, more rarely,  the sealing ). If the impression is made purely as a relief resulting from  the greater pressure on the paper where the high parts of the matrix touch, the  seal is known as a dry seal ; in other cases ink or another a liquid or  liquefied medium is used, in another color than the paper.

In most traditional forms of dry seal the design on the seal matrix is in intaglio (cut below the flat surface) and  therefore the design on the impressions made is in relief (raised above the surface). The design  on the impression will reverse (be a mirror-image of) that of the matrix, which  is especially important when script is included in the design, as it very often  is. This will not be the case if paper is embossed from behind, where the matrix  and impression read the same way, and both matrix and impression are in relief.  However engraved gems were often carved in relief,  called cameo in this context, giving a  "counter-relief" or intaglio impression when used as seals. The process is  essentially that of a mould .

Most seals have always given a single impression on an essentially flat  surface, but in medieval Europe two-sided seals with two matrices were often  used by institutions or rulers (such as towns, bishops and kings) to make  two-sided or fully three-dimensional impressions in wax, with a "tag", a piece  of ribbon or strip of parchment , running through them. These  "pendent" seal impressions dangled below the documents they authenticated, to  which the attachment tag was sewn or otherwise attached (single-sided seals were  treated in the same way).

For legal purposes, the definition of a seal may be extended to include rubber stamps ,  or writing specified words ("seal" or "L.S.").

In the United States, the word "seal" is sometimes assigned to a facsimile of the seal design (in monochrome or  color), which may be used in a variety of contexts including architectural  settings, on flags , or on official letterheads . Thus, for example, the Great Seal of the United States , among other  uses, appears on the reverse of the one-dollar bill ; and several of the seals of the U.S. states appear on their  respective state flags . In Europe, although coats of arms and heraldic badges may well feature in such  contexts as well as on seals, the seal design in its entirety rarely appears as  an emblem.

The study of seals is known as sigillography or sphragistics.


        

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