SigiDoc ID: s-3MYA5r
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 28
- Weight (g)
- ―
- 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
- Brisé; une cassure a détruit le tiers supérieur; le droit est très oxydé.
Dating
- Date
- 7th C., end- 8th 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
- George
- 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 360
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Between eagle's wings, marian monogram, type Laurent I.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Eagle rising, head turned to the right, with, between the wings, a monogram.
- Decoration
- Cercle de feuillage
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de feuillage; avant la légende, sur une ligne séparée, une croisette; la dernière ligne est accostée de perles, dont la deuxième est perdue.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει / Γεωργίο βασιλικῷ βεστύτωρι.
Mother of God help George, imperial vestitor.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 75 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes