SigiDoc ID: s-Tyk1HS
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- 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
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- Condition
- Légèrement rogné à droite; légèrement échancré aux orifices du canal.
Dating
- Date
- 10th C., second-third third
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical seals
- Issuer
- Basil
- Issuer's milieu
- secular-church
- 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 814
- 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. 15
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Croix patriarcale recroisetée au dessus de deux degrés. À l’extrémité des traverses, globules. Deux fleurons sortent de la base jusqu’à mi-champ.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 15
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis. Légende précédée d’une croisette, surmontée et suivie de trois perles.
- Epigraphy
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Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. / + Βασιλείῳ μοναχῷ καὶ ἐξάρχῳ.
Lord help your servant / Basil, monk and exarch.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes