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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-BNhQRZ - PBW ID: 3791
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
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- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 12-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Indented at the channel openings; worn around the edges; off-centre strike.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., second half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- Hamdoun Hamdounes(PBW: Chamdounios
20102)
Milieu: Military
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 81
- 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
- Iconography with inscription in columns.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Saint Theodore stratèlatès standing, holding a spear in his right hand and with his left hand resting on the shield; on either side of the image, inscription in columns.
- Decoration
- Circle of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 6 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of dots; a crosslet precedes the beginning of the legend on the same line; a pearl follows the legend on the same line; after the legend, on a separate line, a croisillon of pearls between two dashes.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
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- Digital image of the obverse.
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- Digital image of the reverse.
Edition
Apparatus
5-6: Χαμ[δ]ούνῃ édition alternative Χαμ[δ]ουνή(ῳ)
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Θεόδωρος ὁ στρατηλάτης. / Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Χαμδουνίῳ βεστάρχῃ καὶ στρατιγῷ τῷ Χαμδούνῃ.
Saint Theodore Stratelates. Lord aid your servant Hamdoun Hamdounes/son of Hamdoun, vestarches and strategos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, 2008f, p. 645 (avec photo); le sceau n'est ni édité ni mentionné dans la première publication de cet article.
- Parallel(s)
-
Collection Zacos BnF, no. 82;
Frank Sternberg, Auktion XXIV, 19-20 novembre 1990, lot 384 (photo sur pl. XXI;
- Further references
- Les sceaux BnF sont mentionnés (avec le parallèle Sternberg) et partiellement transcrits dans BBÖ, 2, p. 274 et n. 214Les parallèles des sceaux BnF sont mentionnés dans Cheynet, 1995, p. 146 et n. 78; le parallèle de la vente Sternberg est mentionné dans Auctions 1986-1992, p. 203.