SigiDoc ID: s-A2Bfo5
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- 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
- Rogné dans sa partie inferieure; échancrure à l’orifice du canal.
Dating
- Date
- 8th C., first half
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical seals
- Issuer
- Damianos
- Issuer's milieu
- secular-church
- Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- Byblos (Jbail)
- 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 721
- 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. 21
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de saint Barnabé, nimbé, avec la barbe taillée en pointe, tenant les Évangiles. Anépigraphe.
- Decoration
- Dans le champ, de part et d'autre, deux croix.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Marian invocative monogram of the Laurent V type.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Deux filets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει. + Δαμιανῷ ἀρχιεπισκόπῳ Κύπρου.
Theotokos help Damianos, archbishop of Cyprus.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes