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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- 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
- Fortement rogné dans sa partie supérieure, en voie d’oxydation, mais nettement gravé.
Dating
- Date
- 7th century C., last third-8th C., first third
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Leo
- 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 297
- 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 invocative monogram of the type Laurent V.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Couronne de feuillage.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Couronne de feuillage.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει / Λέοντι βασιλικῷ στράτορι καὶ ἐκ προσώπου.
Theotokos help Leo, imperial strator and ek prosopou (?).
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 212 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., (Coll. Zacos 2 ex.) Zacos, 1, 1537 a et b, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1955.1.526 , PmbZ Online, 4268 (Leon).
- Further references
- No further references