SigiDoc ID: s-MdaCdH
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
- Rogné fortement au sommet et sur tout le pourtour droit; fissuré le long de la partie supérieure du canal et échancré à l’orifice inferieur; fortement oxydé.
Dating
- Date
- 9th 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
- Theodotos
- 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 392
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Cruciform Marian monogram of the Laurent V type, framed by the usual tetrasyllable
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Bordure indistincte
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Bordure indistincte; petit décor après la légende, sur une même ligne.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Θεοδότου βασιλικοῦ σπαθαρίου.
Mother of God help your servant Theodotos, imperial spatharios.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 68 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes