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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)
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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
- Traces of obliteration on both sides.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., second half
- Internal date
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- 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 82
- 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)
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- Matrix
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- 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
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 6 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; 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)
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Collection Zacos BnF, no. 81;
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. 214; les 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.