SigiDoc ID: s-IUv1UO
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 28
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Rogné à gauche; légèrement entaillé aux -orifices du canal; droit partiellement oblitéré à gauche.
Dating
- Date
- 8th C., end
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- ―
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical seals
- Issuer
- Cyrus
- Issuer's milieu
- secular-church
- Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- Constantinople (Istanbul)
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Paris (France)
- Institution and repository
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques
- Collection and inventory
- Henri Seyrig Collection 699
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- La Vierge, debout, tenant l’Enfant sur le bras gauche
- Decoration
- Bordure.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Monogram.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Deux couronnes de feuillage.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / Κύρῳ ἐπισκόπῳ τοῦ Πολεμονίου.
Theotokos help your servant, Cyrus, bishop of Polemonium.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes