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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 9
- 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 fortement sur le pourtour; légèrement échancré aux orifices du canal.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- John
- 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 384
- 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)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
- Saint Nicolas en buste.
- Decoration
- Bordure.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Bordure.
- Epigraphy
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Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
5-6: [Ἑ]λ(λ)άδ[ος] ; Λα(ο)δ[ικ(είας)]: Nous préférons interpréter la dernière ligne comme [Ἑ]λ(λ)άδ[ος] plutôt que comme Λα(ο)δ[ικ(είας)]. La lecture du toponyme reste hypothétique.Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Νικόλαος. / Κύριε βοήθει Ἰωάννῃ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ καὶ ἐκ προσώπου Ἑλλάδος (?).
St. Nikolaos. Lord help John, spatharokandidatos and ek prosopou of the Hellas (?).
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 180 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes