SigiDoc ID: s-2M7lZO
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
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- Channel orientation (clock)
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- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
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- Condition
- Rogné dans sa partie supérieure; fissuré le long du canal.
Dating
- Date
- 8th century C., ca second quarter
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Artavasdes
- 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 393
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Invocative monogram of the type Laurent V, frame by the usual tetrasyllabe.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Couronne de feuillage.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Légende précédée d’une croisette sur la première ligne.
- Epigraphy
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Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Ἀρταυάσδῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ σρατηγῷ τῆς Θρᾴκης.
Theotokos help your servant Artavasdes, imperial spatharios and strategos of Thrace.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 199 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC, Zacos, 1, 1744 .
- Further references
- PBE, 1, Artabasdos 11 .
Commentary
Footnotes