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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-Fyb4Cy
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 34
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Légèrement rogné et échancré aux orifices du canal ; lettres légèrement empâtées, sinon belle conservation ; large flan.
Dating
- Date
- 1057-1065
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Prosopography, Onomastics, Parallel, Epigraphy, Titulature
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Romanos Skleros
Milieu: Military
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 159
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Saint Michel ailé, vêtu du lôros, debout, tenant en main droite une longue croix, en main gauche le globe crucigère.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 8 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis. Légende précédée d’une étoile à huit branches entre deux tirets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Μιχαήλ / Ῥωμανὸς πρόεδρος στρατοπεδάρχης τῖς Ἀνατολῆς καὶ δοὺξ Ἀντιοχείας ὁ Σκληρός.
St. Michael. Romanos Skleros, proedros, stratopedarches od Anatolia and doux of Antioch.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 159 .
- Parallel(s)
- Musée de l'Ermitage,
- Further references
- Seibt, 1976, p. 82, pl. 2, n. 8. ; PBW 2016, Romanos 104 .
Footnotes