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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 26
- Weight (g)
- ―
- 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; décentré vers la droite; légère échancrure aux orifices du canal..
Dating
- Date
- 8th C., second-third third
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Elias
- 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 116
- 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, framed by the usual tetrasyllabe.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Bordure.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Bordure.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
2-3: Ἠλίας: Le nom se termine par ας ; parmi toutes les possibilités, Kosmas, Nicétas, Bardas, Èlias, ce dernier nom serait le plus vraisemblable, compte tenu des traces de lettres et de l’espace disponible.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει / .... ᾳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ τουρμάχῃ.
Theotokos help Elias (?), imperial spatharios and tourmarches.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 223 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. (Coll. Zacos), Zacos, 2, 2661, PmbZ Online, 1482 (Elias).
- Further references
- No further references