Seal of Stephen, most glorious apo magistron, general logothetes and kommerkiarios of Tyre.show empty fields
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    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

    Interpretive

    obv
    1Στεφάνου ἐνδοξ(οτάτου)
    2ἀπὸ μαγίστρ(ων)
    3Θ(ε)ίου λογοθέτου
    4(καὶ) κομμερ(κιαρίου)
    5Τ[ύ]ρου
    rev

    Diplomatic

    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