SigiDoc ID: s-eJLBqU
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 28
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Décentré vers le sommet; toute la partie supérieure du sceau manque; au droit, profonde entaille sur le bord droit.
Dating
- Date
- 9th C., first half
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- ―
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- N.
- Issuer's milieu
- civil
- Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- ―
- 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 358
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Cruciform monogram, probably of the Laurent V type, framed by the usual tetrasyllable.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Bordure.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Bordure.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / ... βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ χαρτουλαρίῳ τοῦ δρόμου τῶν Ἀρμενιάκων.
Mother of God help your servant N., imperial spatharios and chartoularios of the dromos of the Armeniakon.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 165 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes