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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 27
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
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- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Rogné sur le pourtour gauche; légère échancrure aux orifices du canal; très belle gravure.
Dating
- Date
- 9th C., second half
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- Damianos
- Issuer's milieu
- civil
- Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
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- 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 429
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Cruciform Marian monogram, of the Laurent V type, framed by the usual tetrasyllable.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 23
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Couronne de feuillage.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 3 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 23
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Légende précédée d’une croisette, surmontée et suivie d’un décor fleuronné.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Δαμιανῷ πρωτονοταρίῳ. Ἀμὴν.
Mother of God help your servant Damianos, protonotarios. Amen.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 116 ; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Zacos, 1, 3097 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- PBE, 1, Damianos 14 .
Commentary
Footnotes