Seal-matrix for Adolf von Epstein, Archdeacon of Trier
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Title
Seal-matrix for Adolf von Epstein, Archdeacon of Trier
Description
Seal-matrix for Adolf von Epstein, Archdeacon of Trier; bronze; circular.
Obverse: Female figure standing, facing, wearing a long dress and her hands above her head grasping a cross-bar resting on side posts. On either side an executioner seizing her breast with a pair of pincers. Background sprinkled with flowers and below a shield of arms chevronée; Inscription in legend within beaded borders, disrupted by the cross bar and shield of arms.
Reverse: high shaped pierced ridge
With wax impression.
Diameter: Diameter: 4 centimetres
Inscription position: obverse, legend
Inscription language: Latin
Inscription script: Black Letter
Inscription content: /SI.ADOLFI.DE.EPSTEI.A/RD.IN.ECCIA.TREU'
Inscription transliteration: /SI[GILLUM].ADOLFI.DE.EPSTEI[N].AR[CHI]D[IACO].IN.ECC[LES]IA[E].TRE[VERICA]U[RBS]
Inscription translation: Seal of Adolf of Epstein, archdeacon? in the curch of Trier. Siegel des Adolf von Epstein, Erzdiakon? der Kirche von Trier.
Inscription note: The Transliteration of "AR" as archdeacon is unsure. Orbis Latinus gives more options for the latin name of Trier, so their might be different possibilities to transliterate the last abbreviation.
Two wax impressions, one on paper and one gutta percha.
Identified as the Matryrdom of St. Agatha.
Tonnochy Slip Catalogue says that the arms of Eppstein are argent, three chevrons gules.
Obverse: Female figure standing, facing, wearing a long dress and her hands above her head grasping a cross-bar resting on side posts. On either side an executioner seizing her breast with a pair of pincers. Background sprinkled with flowers and below a shield of arms chevronée; Inscription in legend within beaded borders, disrupted by the cross bar and shield of arms.
Reverse: high shaped pierced ridge
With wax impression.
Diameter: Diameter: 4 centimetres
Inscription position: obverse, legend
Inscription language: Latin
Inscription script: Black Letter
Inscription content: /SI.ADOLFI.DE.EPSTEI.A/RD.IN.ECCIA.TREU'
Inscription transliteration: /SI[GILLUM].ADOLFI.DE.EPSTEI[N].AR[CHI]D[IACO].IN.ECC[LES]IA[E].TRE[VERICA]U[RBS]
Inscription translation: Seal of Adolf of Epstein, archdeacon? in the curch of Trier. Siegel des Adolf von Epstein, Erzdiakon? der Kirche von Trier.
Inscription note: The Transliteration of "AR" as archdeacon is unsure. Orbis Latinus gives more options for the latin name of Trier, so their might be different possibilities to transliterate the last abbreviation.
Two wax impressions, one on paper and one gutta percha.
Identified as the Matryrdom of St. Agatha.
Tonnochy Slip Catalogue says that the arms of Eppstein are argent, three chevrons gules.
Source
Named in inscription: Trier
Europe: Germany: Rhineland-Palatinate (state): Trier
Europe: Germany: Rhineland-Palatinate (state): Trier
Publisher
Made in: Germany
Europe: Germany
Europe: Germany
Date
15th century
Contributor
British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1847-0802-7
Purchased from: Curtis
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1847-0802-7
Purchased from: Curtis
Format
bronze, wax, engraved
Collection
Citation
“Seal-matrix for Adolf von Epstein, Archdeacon of Trier,” European Mastectomy, accessed May 24, 2026, https://european-mastectomy.artinterp.org/items/show/50.