SigiDoc ID: s-XNW7OF
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 27
- Weight (g)
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- Channel orientation (clock)
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- Axis (clock)
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- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
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- Condition
- Fortement échancré aux orifices du canal ; partiellement oblitéré sur les deux faces.
Dating
- Date
- 7th C., end- 8th C., beginning
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- Paul
- Issuer's milieu
- civil
- Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- Constantinople (Istanbul)
- Find date
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- Find circumstances
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- Modern location
- Paris (France)
- Institution and repository
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques
- Collection and inventory
- Henri Seyrig Collection 714
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Cruciform Marian monogram of the Laurent I type, continued in the cantons by the name of the owner of the seal.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
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- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Bordure.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει Παυλω / γενικῷ λογοθέτῃ.
Mother of God help Paul, logothetes of the genikon.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 106 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Laurent, Corpus, 2, 276 ; Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Zacos, 1, 3162 ,
- Further references
- PBE, 1, Paulos 65 .
Commentary
Footnotes