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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 28
- 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
- Rogné sur tout le pourtour ; échancré aux orifices du canal ; lettres nettement gravées.
Dating
- Date
- 8th C., second or third third
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- Stephen
- 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 401
- 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 V type, framed by the name.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 24
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Bordure.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 24
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Légende précédée et suivie par une croisette. Bordure.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει Στεφάνῳ / ὑπάτω βασιλικῷ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ και πρωτοστράτορι.
Theotokos help Stephen, hypatos, imperial spatharokandidatos and protostrator.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 131 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Zacos, 1, 2390 ,
- Further references
- PBE, 1, Stephanos 114 .
Commentary
Footnotes