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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 15
- 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 au pourtour; échancré aux orifices du canal.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., last third
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Nikolaos Sikoundenos
- Issuer's milieu
- military
- Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- Constantinople (Istanbul)
- 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 104.4
- 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 circular legend
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 14
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de la Vierge nimbée, les mains ramenées devant la poitrine. Sigle.
- Decoration
- Deux cercles de grènetis. Légende précédée d'une croix.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 14
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de face d’un saint barbu nimbé, tenant en main droite des clés (?) et en main gauche une croix (saint Pierre?).
- Decoration
- Légende précédée d'une croix.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Θεοτόκε βοήθει Νικολάῳ / ταγματοφύλακι τῷ Σικουνδηνῷ.
Mother of God. Theotokos help Nikolaos Sikoundites tagmatophylax.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes