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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 18
- 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
- Echancré aux orifices du canal; revers étiré et partiellement oblitéré.
Dating
- Date
- 1070-1080
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
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- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Seals of dignitaries
- Issuer
- Manuel Philokales
- Issuer's milieu
- aristocracy
- 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 323
- 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. 14
- Matrix
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- Iconography
- Vierge Hodègètria, à mi-corps, tenant l’Enfant sur le bras gauche; de part et d'autre de l'efifgie, 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. 14
- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; au-dessus de la légende, sur une ligne séparée, une croisette accostée de deux tirets.
- Epigraphy
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Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. / Θεοτόκε βοήθει Μανουὴλ προέδρῳ τῷ Φιλοκάλῃ.
Mother of God. Mother of God aid Manuel Philokales proedros.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 52 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.1850 (Shaw 1245) .
- Further references
- PBW 2016, Manuel 104 .
Commentary
Footnotes