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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-2oQfkg
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 29
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Légèrement décentré vers la droite; échancrure aux orifices du canal; belle conservation.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., to 1025-1035
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Titulature, Prosopography, Onomastics
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Basil Theodorokanos
Milieu: Military
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- 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 665
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 24
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de saint Georges nimbé, tenant en main droite la lance et en main gauche un bouclier arrondi, bordé de perles.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 24
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis. Légende précédée d'une croisette et surmontée et suivie d'une perle accostée de deux tirets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Γεώργιος. / Βασίληος πρωτοσπαθάριος καὶ στρατιγὸς ὁ Θεοδοροκάνος.
St. George. (Seal of) Basil Theodorokanos, protospatharios and strategos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes