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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 23
- 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
- Usé; rogné à droite; légère échancrure 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
- Seals of dignitaries
- Issuer
- John Radomir
- Issuer's milieu
- civil
- 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 827
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- ―
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Vierge orante, à mi-corps, de face. Dans le champ, de part et d'autre de l'effigie, le sigle habituel
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; avant la légende, sur une ligne séparée, un losange de perles; dernière ligne accostée de deux tirets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ / Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἰωάννῃ κουροπαλάτῃ τῷ Ῥαδομίρῳ.
Mother of God / Théotokos help your servant John Radomir, kouropalates.
References
- Edition(s)
- Biliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 24 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes