SigiDoc ID: s-irRk1F
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-PBBIWv
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Rogné sur le pourtour; échancré aux orifices du canal, pressé et oblitéré en son centre; en voie d’oxydation.
Dating
- Date
- 10th C.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Reign, Titulature, *untranslated*
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- Marinos
Milieu: Civil
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- ―
- 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 465
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Cruciform monogram bearing an A or X at the centre of the cross, Ρ at the top, at the base, Μ at the left, and Ι-Ν ligatured at the right of the horizontal arm; circular invocative legend
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; décor de fleurons dans les cantons
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines and circular legend
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Une croisette précède la légende sur la même ligne; cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
2: Noter l’abréviation exceptionnelle après le θ de θεωφυλάκτου.
Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει Μαρίνος /+ ἐπὶ τοῦ θεωφυλάκτου κοιτῶνος καὶ ἐπηνκέρνῃ Ῥομανοῦ τοῦ φιλοχρίστου δεσπότου.
Lord help Marinos, keeper of the God-guarded bedchamber and pinkernes of the Christ-loving despot Romanos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Biliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 16 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Laurent, Corpus, 2, 716 (Fogg 318 et 319) .
- Further references
- PmbZ Online, Marinos .