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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-ER2GOU
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 24
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Struck off-center; lower edge sharply raised; one-third trimmed along the entire upper part; letters smudged.
Dating
- Date
- 7th C., end
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Iconography, Titulature, Epigraphy, Parallel
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Nikolaos (PmbZ: Nikolaos 5543)
Milieu: Aristocracy
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 300
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig.
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Cruciform invocative marian monogram of type Laurent I above iconography.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Eagle, facing, looking to the right with outstretched wings; between the wings, a cruciform monogram.
- Decoration
- Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Wreath border; cross at the beginning of the legend on the same line.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
- Seyrig 20 (Inv. 300), obverse.
- Seyrig 20 (Inv. 300), reverse.
Edition
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει / + Νικολάῳ ἀπὸ ἐπάρχων.
Mother of God help Nikolaos, apo eparchon.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 20.
- Parallel(s)
- Bibliothèque de l’Académie Roumaine, Bucarest, Laurent, coll. Orghidan, 1952, 296;
Zacos, 1, 664a;
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., BZS.1958.106.5407, BZS.1958.106.723, BZS.1958.106.709 et BZS.1958.106.718 = DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.5407, BZS.1958.106.723, BZS.1958.106.709 et BZS.1958.106.718 (= Zacos, 1, 664b). - Further references
- No further references
Footnotes