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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-UxELxa
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 16
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Légèrement rogné, avec de légères échancrures aux orifices du canal; pressé et partiellement oblitéré sur les deux faces.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., end-XIIth C., first half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Titulature
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical seals
- Issuer
- Basil
Milieu: Military
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- 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 453
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 15
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Vierge, debout, tenant l’Enfant sur le bras gauche. Sigle.
- Decoration
- Bordure.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 15
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Bordure. Légende abec la dernière ligne accostée de deux tirets obliques.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ / Σφραγὶς πέφυκα εὐτελοῦς Βασιλείου.
Mother of God. I am the seal of humble Basileios.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 231 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. (Fogg 3108); IFEB 462.
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes