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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
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- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Échancré aux orifices du canal, entaillé au droit sur la droite; boursouflures au revers.
Dating
- Date
- 10th C., beginning
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- ―
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical seals
- Issuer
- John
- Issuer's milieu
- secular-church
- Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- Constantinople (Istanbul)
- Find date
- ―
- 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 692
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Deux personnages debout ; à gauche, la Vierge, tenant sur le bras gauche l’Enfant. À droite, saint Démètrios, tenant la croisette des martyrs.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis. Légende précédée d'une croisette.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Ὁ ἅγιος Δημήτριος. Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. / + Ἰωάννῃ ἀρχιεπισκόπῳ Θεσσαλονίκης.
Mother of God St Demetrios. Theotokos help your servant John, archbishop of Thessaloniki.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 258 .
- Parallel(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris (BN 524); Anc. coll. Schlumberger; Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Schlumberger, 1881, p. 106, Laurent, Corpus, 5.1, 452, Laurent, Corpus, 5.3, p. 300 et pl. 1, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.372, DO Seals, 1, 18.84., PmbZ Online, 22905 (Ioannes).
- Further references
- No further references