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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 27
- 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
- Flan très large ; décentré vers la gauche ; en voie de complète oxydation ; lettres bien gravées.
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
- Ecclesiastical seals
- Issuer
- Theodoros
- Issuer's milieu
- secular-church
- 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 343
- 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. 23
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de la Vierge, orante, portant le médaillon sur la poitrine. Sigle.
- Decoration
- Légende précédée d'une croisette. Deux cercles de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 23
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Saint Basile de face, en buste, tenant le livre des Évangiles en main gauche et bénissant de la droite.
- Decoration
- Bordure.
- Epigraphy
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Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Θεοτόκε βοήθει Θεοδώρῳ προέδρῳ vel πρωτοπροέδρῳ / καὶ μητροπολίτῃ ᾿Αμασείας. Ὁ ἅγιος Βασίλειος.
Mother of God. Theotokos help Theodoros, proedros (or protoproedros) et metropolitan of Amaseia. St. Basil.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 232, Laurent, Corpus, 5.1, 418 (cet ex.), PBW 2016, Theodoros 175 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes