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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-Fb7gRM - PBW ID: 2018
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Indented at the upper opening of the channel, until reaching the upper limit of the image on the obverse and of the first line of the legend on the reverse..
Dating
- Date
- 11th-12th C.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private seals
- Issuer
- Constantine Chrysobalandites(PBW: Konstantinos 20251)
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 64
- Acquisition
-
Gift of Janet Zacos, 1998
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with inscription in columns.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of saint Theodore, in military garb, holding the shield on the left and the spear on the right; on either side of the image, inscription in columns.
- 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; a crosslet (not perfectly visible) flanked by dashes precedes the legend on a separate line.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
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- Digital image of the obverse.
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- Digital image of the reverse.
Edition
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Θεόδωρος. / Σφραγὶς Κωνσταντινοῦ τοῦ Χρυσοβαλανδίτου.
Saint Theodore. Seal of Constantine Chrysobalandites.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- Le sceau Zacos BnF 64 est mentionné et transcrit dans Stavrakos, coll. Athens, 2000, p. 412; voir aussi PBW 2016, boulloterion 2018.
Commentary
On signalera l'existence de celui qui semble être un homonyme, qui était protospathaire, juge de l'Hippodrome, protonotaire impérial et exaktôr: pour les références, voir PBW 2016, Konstantinos 20250.