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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-mjxAdo
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 23
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Échancré à l’orifice supérieur du canal; décentré vers le sommet et vers la gauche.
Dating
- Date
- 1066-1067
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Onomastics, Prosopography, Epigraphy, Titulature
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Leo Arbentenos
Milieu: Military
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Antioch/Antakya
- Find place
- Berytos (Beirut)
- 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 537
- 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. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Saint Nicolas nimbé, debout de face, bénissant de la main droite tenue devant la poitrine et tenant les Évangiles de la main gauche.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis. Légende précédée d’une croisette.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Νικόλαος / + Λέοντι βεστάρχῃ καὶ δουκὶ Ἐδέσσης τῷ Ἀρβεντηνῷ.
St. Nikolaos. Leo Arbentenos, vestarches and doux of Edessa.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 177 ; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Oikonomides, 1986, 94 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- PBW 2016, Leon 20102 .
Commentary
Footnotes