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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-z00l8j
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 18
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Flan plus large que le sceau ; gravure nette et bien conservée ; l’effigie a un puissant relief.
Dating
- Date
- Ca. 1072- ca. 1078
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- *untranslated*, Prosopography, Iconography, Titulature
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Seals of dignitaries
- Issuer
- Michael Attaleiates
Milieu: Aristocracy
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
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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 325
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 13
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Vierge, à mi-corps, tenant l’Enfant sur le bras gauche, légèrement de profil, tournée vers lui, du type de l'Hodègètria.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 13
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; avant la légende, sur une ligne séparée, une croisette accostée de deux tirets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ / + Μιχαὴλ ἀνθύπατος ᾿Ατταλειάτης.
Mother of God / Michael Attaleiates, anthypatos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Biliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 17 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes