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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-PlrPB6
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Décentré vers le haut; profondément échancré aux orifices du canal, sinon belle frappe.
Dating
- Date
- 9th C., ca first half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Titulature, Onomastics
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical seals
- Issuer
- Theognostos
Milieu: Secular Church
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- Berytos (Beirut)
- 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 817
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Invocative monogram of the type Laurent VIII, framed by the usual tetrasyllabe.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis. Légende précédée d'une croisette et suivie de trois perles.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Θεογνώστο διακόνῳ οἰκονόμῳ Ἐφέσω.
Theotokos help your servant Theognostos, deacon and oikonomos of Ephesus.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes