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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
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- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Fortes échancrures aux orifices du canal ; rogné sur le pourtour ; décentré vers la base au droit ; en voie d’oxydation.
Dating
- Date
- 10th C., second or third quarter
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Niketas
- 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 313
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Monogram (partially obliterated) framed by rosettes.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Deux cercles de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Légende précédée d’une croisette.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Νικήτᾳ. / βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ ἐπὶ τοῦ Χρυσοτρικλίνου καὶ στρατιγῷ Καπαδοκίας.
Lord help your servant Niketas, imperial protospatharios, epi tou Chrysotriklinou and strategos of Cappadocia.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 171 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes