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Roman Lead Sealings Roman Lead Sealings VOLUME I MICHAEL CHARLES WILLIAM STILL SUBMITTED FOR TIlE DEGREE OF PILD. SEPTEMBER 1995 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY (L n") '3 1. ABSTRACT This thesis is based on a catalogue of c. 1800 records, covering over 2000 examples of Roman lead sealings, many previously unpublished. The catalogue is provided with indices of inscriptions and of anepigraphic designs, and subsidiary indices of places, military units, private individuals and emperors mentioned on the scalings. The main part of the thesis commences with a history of the use of lead sealings outside of the Roman period, which is followed by a new typology (the first since c.1900) which puts special emphasis on the use of form as a guide to dating. The next group of chapters examine the evidence for use of the different categories of scalings, i.e. Imperial, Official, Taxation, Provincial, Civic, Military and Miscellaneous. This includes evidence from impressions, form, texture of reverse, association with findspot and any literary references which may help. The next chapter compares distances travelled by similar scalings and looks at the widespread distribution of identical scalings of which the origin is unknown. The first statistical chapter covers imperial sealings. These can be assigned to certain periods and can thus be subjected to the type of analysis usually reserved for coins. The second statistical chapter looks at the division of categories of scalings within each province. The scalings in each category within each province are calculated as percentages of the provincial total and are then compared with an adjusted percentage for that category in the whole of the empire. The final chapter is based on the iconography found in the impressions on the scalings. This includes the styles of imperial portraits, deities, animals, inanimate objects, designs which may come from outside of the empire, similar impressions on other items, epigraphic styles and possible examples of matrices. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume I Title Page 1 Abstract 2 Table of Contents 3 List of Maps, Figures, Tables and Illustrations 10 Acknowledgements 17 Introduction 19 List of findspots to accompany maps 23 1. The Use of Lead Sealings before and after the Roman Period 26 Pre-Roman use of lead sealings 26 Post-Roman use of lead scalings 28 2. Typology of Roman Lead Scalings 35 Type 1: Two-sided with different sized obverse and 36 reverse resulting in flange around flan. Type 2: Two-sided with various shapes of flan 38 Type 3: Two-sided with squared-off appearance due 40 to having been cut from a lead bar Type 4: Two-sided consisting of two plates, joined 41 by a strip, clipped together 3 Type 5: One-sided with swelling on blank reverse 42 Type 6: One-sided with flat reverse 45 Type 7: One-sided rectangular mould-formed bars 47 Type 8: One-sided with central nipple on reverse 48 Type 9: One-sided with pedestal-foot projection on reverse 49 Type 10: One-sided consisting of two plates 50 Experimental manufacture of lead sealings by the author 50 Notes 52 3. Imperial Sealings - The Evidence for their Use 54 Evidence from impression 54 Evidence from form and reverse 59 Evidence from association with findspot 61 Evidence from written sources 66 Examples dated by context 67 Conclusions 67 Notes 69 4. Official Scalings - The Evidence for their Use 72 Evidence from impression 72 Evidence from form and reverse 76 Evidence from written sources 77 Conclusions 78 Notes 79 5 Taxation Scalings - The Evidence for their Use 80 Evidence from impression 80 Evidence from form and reverse 82 Evidence from association with findspot 82 Evidence from written sources 83 4 Examples dated by context 83 Conclusions 83 Notes 84 6. Provincial Scalings - The Evidence for their Use 85 Evidence from impression 85 Evidence from form and reverse 86 Evidence from association with findspot 86 Evidence from written sources 88 Examples dated by context 89 Additional example 89 Conclusions 89 Notes 90 7. Civic Sealings - The Evidence for their Use 91 Evidence from impression 91 Evidence from form and reverse 92 Evidence from association with findspot 93 Evidence from written sources 95 Examples dated by context 96 Conclusions 96 Notes 97 8. Military Scalings - The Evidence for their Use 98 Evidence from impression 98 Evidence from form and reverse 102 Evidence from association with findspot 104 Evidence from written sources 112 The absence of evidence 114 Examples dated by context 116 5 Conclusions 117 Notes 118 9. Miscellaneous Sealings - The Evidence for their Use 122 Evidence from impression 122 Evidence from form and reverse 126 Evidence from association with findspot 127 Evidence from association with item sealed 129 Evidence from written sources 130 Examples dated by context 130 Conclusions 131 Notes 133 10. Scalings as evidence for the distribution of goods 135 Conclusions 141 Notes 142 II. Imperial Scalings - The Statistical evidence 143 Scalings assigned to emperors by inscription 146 Scalings assigned to emperors by portrait identification 150 Comparison of scalings assigned to emperors by inscription and portrait 153 Conclusions 157 Notes 159 12. Provincial Distribution of Scalings - The Statistical evidence 160 Conclusions 193 13. The Iconography of Roman Lead Scalings 194 Imperial Portraits 194 Religion/Mythology 196 6 Human figures 204 Animals 204 Combinations 205 Inanimate objects 206 Designs possibly from outside of the empire 207 Similar impressions on other items 208 Epigraphic styles 208 Possible examples of matrices 209 Notes 213 14. Conclusions 214 Abbreviations 217 Bibliography 223 Volume II Title Page to Volume II 237 Introduction to Catalogue 238 Catalogue (followed by fold-out key to Catalogue sections) 241 Introduction to Main Indices 607 Main Indices 609 Main Epigraphic Index 609 Main Index of designs (from both epigraphic and anepigraphic examples) 667 7 Subsidiary indices 715 Index to Categories within the Catalogue 715 Quick Reference Guide to Classification and Provenance of Sealings 715 Index of sites in order of Province 721 Military Units mentioned on Lead Sealings 724 Names of Provinces and their Inhabitants 726 Names of Towns/Cities and their Inhabitants 726 Nomina of individuals and Families (except members of Imperial Family) 727 Cognomina of Individuals (except members of the imperial Family) 730 Members of Imperial Families (where mentioned by name) 734 Members of Imperial Families identified from portraits alone 734 List of previously unpublished examples 738 List of previously published examples for which I have offered 739 new readings, interpretations etc. from personal inspection of examples/photographs and analogy with known examples. Gazetteer of sites 730 8 Introduction to Illustrations 768 Illustrations of scalings 769 Supplementary Material (bound in at back of Volume II) Still, M.C.W., 1993, 'Opening up Imperial lead sealings', Journal of Roman Archaeology 6, 403-408. Still, M.C.W., 1994, 'Some Roman lead scalings from Arzus', in Draganov, D. (ed), Settlement Life in Ancient Thrace - Ilird International Symposium "Cabyle ", Jambol, 389-395. Still, M.C.W., 1995, 'Parallels for the Roman lead sealing from Smyrna found at Ickham, Kent', Archaeologia ('antiana cxiv (1994), 347-3 56. CORRIGENDA Volume I Page 58, line 4: delete 'has' at the end of the line and insert it at the end of line 5. p.88, line 6: for 'manslo' read 'mutalio'. p.120, note 16: for 'Janet' read 'Jarrett'. p.203, bottom line: for '[1764]' read '[1765]'. p.230, top line: for 'Jarret' read 'Jarrett'. 9 LIST OF MAPS, FIGURES, TABLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS Maps Map of empire showing findspots 21 (including inset I of Pannonia & inset 2 of Moesia Inferior and Thrace) Map of Britain showing findspots (inset 3 of map of empire) 22 Figures Fig. I Typology of Roman Lead Sealings 53 Fig.2 Actual numbers of Imperial scalings found in each province 143 (there are no exact figures for Numidia) Fig.3 Imperial scalings as a percentage of the total of all scalings in their 144 respective provinces compared with the total of imperial sealings as a percentage of the whole empire total (including and excluding Gallia Lugdunensis) Fig.4 Actual numbers of Imperial scalings identified by inscription 146 Fig.5 Imperial scalings per thousand identified by inscription 149 Fig.6 Imperial scalings per thousand identified from portrait alone 152 Fig.7 Imperial scalings per thousand identified from 153 (i) inscription and (ii) portrait alone 10 Fig.8 imperial sealings per thousand identified from (i) inscription and 156 (ii) portrait alone, the latter omitting examples bearing any other inscription or multiple busts Fig.9 Percentages of sealings in different categories for whole 161 empire including Gallia Lugdunensis Fig. 10 Percentages of sealings in different categories for whole 163 empire excluding Gallia Lugdunensis. Fig. 11 Percentages of scalings in different categories in Africa 166 Proconsularis (unshaded) compared with category total for the whole empire expressed as a percentage of the whole empire total for those two categories (shaded). Fig. 12 Percentages of scalings in different categories in Asia (unshaded) 167 compared with the category total for the whole empire expressed as a percentage of the whole empire total for those two categories (shaded). Fig. 13 Percentages of scalings in different categories in Britannia (unshaded) 169 compared with the category total for the whole empire expressed as a percentage of the whole empire total for those twelve categories (shaded). Fig. 14 Percentages of scalings in different categories in Dalmatia (unshaded) 171 compared with the category total for the whole empire expressed as a percentage of the whole empire total for those two categories (shaded) Fig. 15 Percentages of scalings in different categories in Gallia Belgica 172 (unshaded) compared with the category total for the whole empire expressed as a percentage of the whole empire total for those five categories (shaded).
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