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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 34
- 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 légèrement au sommet et sur le pourtour à gauche ; échancré profondément aux extrémités du canal ; lettres nettement gravées.
Dating
- Date
- 8th century C., first half
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Kosmas
- 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 407
- 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 monogram.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 29
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Deux couronnes de feuillage.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 29
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Légende précédée et suivie d'une croisette. Couronne de feuillage.
- Epigraphy
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Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Κοσμᾷ / + πατρικίῳ καὶ κόμητι τοῦ θεοφλάκτου βασιλικοῦ Ὀψικίου +.
Mother of God help your servant Kosmas, patrikios and komes of the imperial Opsikion guarded by God.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 188 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Zacos, 1, 406 ; Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.5609 .
- Further references
- PBE, 1, Kosmas 43 .
Commentary
Footnotes