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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 28
- 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
- Profondément entaillé sur la droite du droit et le long de la ligne du canal ; bord relevé ; éraflures et entailles sur les deux faces.
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
- Issuer's milieu
- monastic
- 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 518
- 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 legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de la Vierge, orante, avec le médaillon de l’Enfant. Sigle.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis. Légende précédée d’une croisette.
- Epigraphy
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Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. / Θεοτόκε βοήθει Ξένῃ μοναχῇ κουροπαλατίσσῃ τῇ Κομνηνῇ.
Mother of God. Theotokos help Xene Komnene, nun and kouropalatissa.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 290, Laurent, Corpus, 5.2, 1476 (cet ex. non ill.), PBW 2016, Theodora 106 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes