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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-BatG1N
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Chipped at the channel opening; worn on the left.
Dating
- Date
- 6th C., end - 7th C., first half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- George
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 459
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Cruciform monogram: at the top of the cross, Ω at the base, Γ on the left on the right and Ρ in the centre. Certain solution: Γεωργίου.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek in Latin script
- Layout of field
- Legend of 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Wreath border; above the legend, on a separate line, a cross potent.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
- Seyrig 21 (Inv. 459), obverse.
- Seyrig 21 (Inv. 459), reverse.
Edition
Legend and translation
Γεωργίου / apo hypaton.
(Seal of) George, apo hypaton.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 21.
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes