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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-DidAON
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 14
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Fortement rogné au pourtour ; décentré vers la gauche ; bord droit relevé ; en voie d’oxydation ; surfrappé.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., end
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Titulature
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical seals
- Issuer
- Nikolaos
Milieu: Secular Church
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- Constantinople (Istanbul)
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Paris (France)
- Institution and repository
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques
- Collection and inventory
- Henri Seyrig Collection 316
- 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. 12
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de saint Nicolas, barbu, nimbé, tenant en main gauche les Évangiles.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 12
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis. Légende précédée d’une croisette et dernière ligne accostée de deux tirets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Νικόλαος. / Ἅγιε Νικόλαε βοήθει Νικολάῳ ἐπισκόπῳ Χίου.
St. Nikolaos. St. Nikolaos help Nikolaos, bishop of Chios.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 240 .
- Parallel(s)
- Numismatic Museum of Athens, Athens; Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Schlumberger, 1884, 1, Konstantopoulos, coll. Athens, 1917, 100, Laurent, Corpus, 5.1, 708, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.275, DO Seals, 2, 41.7., PBW 2016, Nikolaos 20113 .
- Further references
- No further references