Seal of Diomedes ans Diogenes, kommerkiarios of Tyre.show empty fields
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    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    Matrix
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    Physical description

    Medium
    Original impression
    Material
    Lead
    Shape
    Round
    Dimensions (mm)
    H. 37 , W. 29
    Weight (g)
    Channel orientation (clock)
    Axis (clock)
    Overstrike orientation (clock)
    Execution
    Struck
    Countermark
    Condition
    Uniface. Empreinte de tissu au revers ; rogné au pourtour ; échancré aux orifices du canal.

    Dating

    Date
    574-578
    Internal date
    Dating criteria
    Epigraphy, Titulature, Iconography
    Alternative date

    History

    Category
    Provincial administration
    Issuer
    Diomedes Diogenes
    Milieu: Civil
    Gender: -
    Place of origin
    Byzantine Empire
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    Modern location
    Paris (France)
    Institution and repository
    Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques
    Collection and inventory
    Henri Seyrig Collection 944
    Acquisition

    Donation by Henri Seyrig

    Previous locations
    Modern observations

    Obverse

    Language(s)
    *untranslated*
    Layout of field
    Iconography with legend in columns
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Matrix
    Iconography
    Trois bustes nimbés; au centre Justin II, à gauche Tibère, à droite Sophie, portant le diadème avec les pendilia, vêtus de la chlamyde
    Decoration
    Légende précédée d'une croisette.
    Epigraphy

    Reverse

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    Field dimensions (mm)
    Matrix
    Iconography
    Decoration
    Epigraphy

    Edition

    Interpretive

    obv
    1+ Διομήδους
    2(καὶ) Διογένους
    3ἐνδοξ(οτάτων) κομμ-
    4ερκιαρ(ίων) ἀπο-
    5θήκης Τύρου
    rev

    Diplomatic

    obv
    rev

    Apparatus

    None.

    Legend and translation

    + Διομήδους και Διογένους ἐνδοξοτάτων κομμερκιαρίων ἀποθήκης Τύρου.

    (Seal of) Diomedes ans Diogenes, most glorious kommerkiarios of Tyre.

    References

    Edition(s)
    Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 144 ; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Oikonomides, 1986, 6 .
    Parallel(s)
    No parallels known
    Further references
    No further references

    Footnotes