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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 30
- 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
- ―
- Condition
- Fortement rogné au sommet ; en voie d’oxydation ; lettres faiblement gravées.
Dating
- Date
- 7th century C., fin-8th C., début
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Constantine
- 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 433
- 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, with nothing in the cantons.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 23
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Trois cercles de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 23
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Légende précédée d’une croisette, accostée de deux fleurons et terminée par des ornements indistincts.
- Epigraphy
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Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει / Κωνσταντίνου τοποτηρητοῦ.
Theotokos help Constantine, topoteretes.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references