Seal of Kemales, protospatharios and strategos of Mauron Orosshow empty fields
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    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    Matrix
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    Physical description

    Medium
    Original impression
    Material
    Lead
    Shape
    Round
    Dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 27
    Weight (g)
    ―
    Channel orientation (clock)
    ―
    Axis (clock)
    ―
    Overstrike orientation (clock)
    ―
    Execution
    Struck
    Countermark
    ―
    Condition
    Décentré vers la gauche, pressé et oblitéré à gauche du droit et à droite du revers.

    Dating

    Date
    11th C., second or third third
    Internal date
    ―
    Dating criteria
    Epigraphy, Titulature
    Alternative date
    ―

    History

    Category
    Provincial administration
    Issuer
    Kemales
    Milieu: Military
    Gender: -
    Place of origin
    Laodicea ad Mare/Latakia
    Find place
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    Find date
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    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 590
    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. 23
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    Buste de saint Théodore, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant une lance en main droite et un bouclier orné de perles en main gauche.
    Decoration
    Cercle de grènetis.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Reverse

    Language(s)
    ―
    Layout of field
    Legend of 5 lines
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 23
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    ―
    Decoration
    Cercle de grènetis. Légende précédée d'une croisette et la dernière ligne est accostée de deux tirets.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Edition

    Interpretive

    obv
    [(Ὁ ἅγιος) Θεό] δωρο(ς)
    rev
    1+ Κεμά-
    2λης (πρωτο)σπα-
    3θάρ(ιος) (καὶ) στρ(α)-
    4τηγ(ὸς) Μ[αύ(ρου)]
    5Ὄρου(ς)

    Diplomatic

    obv
    rev

    Apparatus

    None.

    Legend and translation

    Ὁ ἅγιος Θεόδωρος. / Κεμάλης πρωτοσπαθάριος καὶ στρατηγὸς Μαύρου Ὄρους.

    St. Theodoros. (Seal of) Kemales, protospatharios and strategos of Mauron Oros.

    References

    Edition(s)
    Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 183 .
    Parallel(s)
    No parallels known
    Further references
    No further references

    Footnotes