SigiDoc ID: s-aBwFiD
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 32
- 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 au sommet; détruit dans sa partie inférieure le long du canal.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., second half
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Michael Radenos
- 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 409
- 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)
- Diam. 28
- Matrix
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- Iconography
- Buste de la Vierge, de type Nikopoios, tenant lé médaillon de l’Enfant sur la poitrine. Sigle.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 28
- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis. Légende précédée d'une croisette sur la première ligne et terminée par deux perles accostées de deux tirets.
- Epigraphy
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Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ / Θεοτόκε βοήθει Μιχαὴλ προέδρῳ καὶ πραίτωρι τῶν Θρακησίων τῷ Ῥαδηνῷ.
Mother of God / Theotokos help Michael Radenos, proedros and praitor of the Thracesians.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes