SigiDoc ID: s-3jKEbD
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-7tXfUy - PBW ID: 5174
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
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- 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
- The blank has several appendices resulting from moulding; worn on both sides.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., second half
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Prosopography, Parallel
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Private seals
- Issuer
- Symeon Alyates(PBW: Symeon 20135)
Milieu: Private
Gender: Male
- Place of origin
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- 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 41
- Acquisition
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Gift of Janet Zacos, 1998
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Circle of dots; a crosslet precedes the beginning of the legend on the same line; the last line of the legend is flanked by dashes.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of dots; before the legend, on a separate line, a dot flanked by dashes; the last line of the legend is flanked by dashes.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
Χριστὲ βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / Συμεὼν τῷ Ἀλιάτῃ.
Christ aid your servant Symeon Alyates.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
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Collection Zacos BnF, no. 42.
Collection Dumbarton Oaks (Washington D.C.), no. BZS.1947.2.985: DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1947.2.985;
Collection IFEB (Paris), no. 77 (olim 91).
- Further references
- Le sceau IFEB 91 (aujourd'hui 77) est mentionné dans BBÖ, 1, p. 281 et n. 6.