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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-JtBr3B
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Grande entaille à gauche jusqu’au centre du sceau, en voie de se briser ; revers pressé et partiellement oblitéré.
Dating
- Date
- 9th C., end- 10th C., first half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Titulature
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Gregoras
Milieu: Military
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 321
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Invocative monogram, very damaged, framed by the usual tetrasyllable.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Double cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Double cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / Γρηγορᾷ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Χαλδίας.
Lord help your servant Gregoras, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Chaldia.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 173 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes