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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-KN2Nr2
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 33
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Rogné sur le pourtour ; quelques points d’oxydation ; entaillé en diagonale sur le revers ; sinon, belle gravure.
Dating
- Date
- 8th century C., first half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Parallel, Epigraphy, Titulature
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Theodoros
Milieu: Military
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 346
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Invocative monogram of the type Laurent V, framed by the tetrasyllable.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 29
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Couronne de feuillage.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 7 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 29
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Légende précédée et suivie d'une croisette. Couronne de feuillage.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Θεοδώρῳ / + πατρικίῳ καὶ κόμητι τοῦ θεοφυλάκτου βασιλικοῦ Ὀψικίου +.
Mother of God help your servant Theodoros, patrikios and komes of the imperial Opsikion guarded by God.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 189 .
- Parallel(s)
- Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museums, Vienne, Zacos, 1, 3194 (Vienne 213) .
- Further references
- PBE, 1, Theodoros 280 .
Footnotes