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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-KJxc6e
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 12-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Indented at the channel openings; worn around the edge; strike slightly off-centre.
Dating
- Date
- 10th C., second half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Prosopography
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private seals
- Issuer
- Nikephoros Erotikos
Milieu: Private
Gender: Male
- Place of origin
- ―
- 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
- Zacos BnF 195
- Acquisition
-
Gift of Janet Zacos, 1998
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Iconography.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- The scene depicts Abraham's Hospitality (Genesis, 18:1-15): the three angels representing the Trinity are arranged around a table, in the centre of which is a cup; the central angel has a cruciform nimbus, indicating that he is the Christ; the angels are holding long sceptres.
- Decoration
- Circle of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of dots; before the legend, on a separate line, a string of pearls; a crosslet precedes the beginning of the legend on the same line.
- Epigraphy
- The presence of horseshoe-shaped omegas is surprising in the period of the seal
Images
-
- Digital image of the obverse.
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- Digital image of the reverse.
Edition
Legend and translation
+ Κύριε βοήθει Νικηφόρῳ τῷ Ἐροτοκῷ.
Lord aid Nikephoros Erotikos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- Le sceau Zacos BnF 195 est mentionné dans Cheynet, Gökyıldırım, Bulgurlu, coll. Istanbul, p. 480.