SigiDoc ID: s-L7YBMX
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 26
- 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
- Rogné fortement au sommet du champ; entailles aux orifices du canal; lettres nettement gravées.
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
- Seals of dignitaries
- Issuer
- Leo
- 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 381
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- CCruciform monogram, probably of the Laurent V type, framed by the usual tetrasyllable.
- Field dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Traces de couronne de feuillage.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 3 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Avant et après la légende, sur des lignes séparées, une croisette accostée de deux fleurons.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ δούλῳ σου / Λέοντι ὑπάτῳ.
Mother of God help your servant Leo, hypatos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Biliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 31 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes