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Description: | Copper-alloy seal matrix with hexagonally facetted conical handle broken part of the way up. Very worn and corroded, the circular die is now 17 mm in diameter but may originally have been a little larger. In the centre are four letters, INIC, written either the right way round (so they would come out in mirror-writing on the impression) or upside-down. INIC probably stands for Jesus of Nazareth Jesus Christ, but is an unusual standard abbreviation; INRI for Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews is much commoner. The only alternative to INIC in mirror-writing is DINI, which makes even less sense. These four letters sit across the centre between two vertical fleurs-de-lis that both point towards the middle of the matrix. Around is a beaded circle and then an inscription reading NAVZARENV: (Nazareth). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1300
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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