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Description: | A complete cast lead Russian flax bale seal of early modern date. The seal is circular with worn and broken edges and a roughly rectangular cross section. The obverse is stamped with four lines of text: A.A//ATNK:R//dENP (the N is in retrograde)//O[-]IHThis text represents the initials and surname of the Quality Control Officer and possibly a code for the location at which the Officer worked or the registered number of the sealing tongs he used.The reverse of the seal is stamped with a further four lines of text: S.P.B//N.P.A2//M.S.//1831SPB denotes St Petersburg, the place of export, and the remaining text most probably denote the producer of the goods. 1831 is the year of production. The stamps are a mixture of Roman and Cyrillic scriptsNumerous Russian bag seals are recorded by the PAS and a similar seal can be seen on the PAS database number: YORYM-85FB96.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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