SigiDoc ID: s-1YXBeU
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-mmhrK5
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- H. 32 , W. 24
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Uniface. Empreinte de tissu. Rogné à droite et dans sa partie inférieure; lettres peu nettes.
Dating
- Date
- 6th C., second half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Titulature, Iconography
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Stephen
Milieu: Civil
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- Tyre (Ṣūr)
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Paris (France)
- Institution and repository
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques
- Collection and inventory
- Henri Seyrig Collection 709
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Trois bustes ; au centre, le Christ nimbé, à gauche, Il ?), à droite, une impératrice (Sophie?) avec la couronne ornée de pointes.
- Decoration
- ―
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- ―
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- ―
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Στεφάνου ἐνδοξοτάτου ἀπὸ μαγίστρων Θείου λογοθέτου και κομμερκιαρίου Τύρου.
(Seal of) Stephen, most glorious apo magistron, general logothetes and kommerkiarios of Tyre.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 143 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes