Seal of the imperial workshop (?) of Tyre?.show empty fields
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    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    Matrix
    SigiDoc ID: m-7K2ZLo

    Physical description

    Medium
    Original impression
    Material
    Lead
    Shape
    Oval
    Dimensions (mm)
    H. 17 , W. 13
    Weight (g)
    Channel orientation (clock)
    Axis (clock)
    Overstrike orientation (clock)
    Execution
    Struck
    Countermark
    Condition
    Uniface. Traces de tissu sur le revers; échancré en haut et cassé sur les côtés.

    Dating

    Date
    6th C., second half
    Internal date
    Dating criteria
    Epigraphy, Titulature
    Alternative date

    History

    Category
    Provincial administration
    Issuer
    Sergios
    Milieu: Undetermined
    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 807
    Acquisition

    Donation by Henri Seyrig

    Previous locations
    Modern observations

    Obverse

    Language(s)
    *untranslated*
    Layout of field
    Monogram
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Matrix
    Iconography
    Buste de l’empereur, portant le diadème orné d’une aigrette, vêtu de la chlamyde.
    Decoration
    Dans le champ, de part et d'autre, une croix.
    Epigraphy

    Reverse

    Language(s)
    Layout of field
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Matrix
    Iconography
    Decoration
    Epigraphy

    Edition

    Interpretive

    obv
    1(βασιλικὴ φαβρίξ)
    rev

    Diplomatic

    obv
    rev

    Apparatus

    None.

    Legend and translation

    βασιλικὴ φαβρίξ (?).

    (Seal of) the imperial workshop (?).

    References

    Edition(s)
    Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 152 .
    Parallel(s)
    No parallels known
    Further references
    No further references

    Footnotes