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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-qOLyGh
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 12-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Trimmed; heavily indented on the right and at the channel openings; notched on the reverse side over most of the channel.
Dating
- Date
- 527-565
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Reign, Titulature, Iconography, Prosopography, Parallel
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Imperial
- Issuer
- Justinian I
Milieu: Imperial
Gender: Male - Place of origin
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- 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 949
- Acquisition
-
donation by Henri Seyrig.
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Latin
- Layout of field
- Circular legend around the emperor's image.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of the emperor, beardless, nimbed and diademed, wearing the chlamys.
- Decoration
- ―
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Winged victory advancing from the front holding a crown in each hand. In the field, on either side, a cross.
- Decoration
- ―
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
- Seyrig 2 (Inv. 949), obverse.
- Seyrig 2 (Inv. 949), reverse.
Edition
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Dominus noster Iustinianus perpetuus Augustus.
Our lord Justinian, eternal Augustus.
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, p. 21, no. 2.
- Parallel(s)
- Zacos, 1, p. 7-8, no. 3a et b; Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien MK1 – BBÖ, 1, p. 58-59, no. 6.
- Further references
- No further references