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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- 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
- Fortes échancrures aux orifices du canal.
Dating
- Date
- 9th C., last third-10th C., beginning
- 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 391
- 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 invocative circular legend
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 18
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Croix patriarcale de petite dimension, sur trois (?) degrés, sans décor.
- Decoration
- Deux cercles de grènetis contenant la légende circulaire.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 18
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; une croisette précède la légende sur une même ligne.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Λέοντι βασιλικῷ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ.
Lord, help your servant Leo, imperial spatharokandidatos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 69 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes