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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 29
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
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- Axis (clock)
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- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
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- Condition
- Rogné dans toute sa partie droite; boursouflé le long du canal, au revers; très belles lettres, nettement et régulièrement gravées.
Dating
- Date
- 9th C., first half
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- Constantine
- 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 402
- 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 usual tetrasyllable.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Couronne de feuillage.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Légende suivie d’un rang de quatre perles.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / Κωνσταντίνῳ πατρικίῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ ἐπάρχῳ Πόλεως.
Mother of God help your servant Constantine, patrikios, imperial protospatharios and eparch of the City.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 133 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes