SigiDoc: Seal of Leo Alyates, patrikios and strategos

Medium: Original impression
Material: Lead
Shape: Round
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Execution: Struck
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Condition: Very deep indentation at the lower opening of the channel, having damaged the lower part of the iconography on the obverse and the last two lines of the legend on the reverse; on the reverse, blistering along the channel.

Category: Central administration
Issuer: Leo Alyates(PBW: Leon 20361)
Milieu: Military
Gender: Male
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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 45
Acquisition: Gift of Janet Zacos, 1998
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Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Iconography with legend in columns.
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Iconography: Bust of St Theodore, with curly hair and beard, holding a spear with his right hand and a decorated shield with the left. Inscription in columns on either sides of the image.
Decoration: Circle of dots.
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Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Linear legend of 6 lines.
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Decoration: Circle of dots; before the legend, on a separate line, an ornamental crosslet between dashes; a crosslet precedes the beginning of the legend on the same line; the last lien of the legend is flanked by dashes.
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