SigiDoc ID: s-HJm3K8
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Weight (g)
- ―
- 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
- Entaille profonde à l’orifice supérieur du canal, et boursouflure le long de la ligne du canal, rendant le droit presque totalement oblitéré; gravure des lettres moyenne.
Dating
- Date
- 10th 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
- Kalokyros
- Issuer's milieu
- military
- 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 311
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de saint (Nicolas ?), au geste indistinct.
- Decoration
- Bordure.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Une croisette précède la légende sur une même ligne et une croisette suit la légende, accostée de deux fleurons. Bordure.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. / + Καλοκύρο βασιλικῷ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ και ἐπι τῆς μεγάλης ἑταιρείας .
Lord help your servant. Kalokyros imperial spatharokandidatos and epi tes megales hetaireias.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 129 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes