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Description: | Small copper ally hexagonal-topped personal seal-matrix with (centre) an image of a human face, not apparently like the head of John the Baptrist on a plate but with hood as if cowled. This within a beaded ring, with a legend circumscribed IE SV SEL. This is nothing to do with Jesus (IESVS) but Norman French, 'I am the Seal': part of a longer inscrition sometimes found, such as 'Ie Sv sel a Thomas Viel' or 'Ie Sv Sel prive' etc. The die is 15mm in diameter and the handle is 18mm high, incorporating an upper loop 6mm high with a hole of gauge 2mm. The upper structure is hexagonal in the usual way for such 14th-early 15th century seals, which were mass-produced. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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