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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-W0MdJB
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 17
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Pressé et oblitéré dans la partie inférieure droite; décentré légèrement vers la droite ; en voie d’oxydation.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., end-12th C., beginning
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Prosopography, Titulature
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Seals of dignitaries
- Issuer
- Romanos
Milieu: Civil
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- ―
- 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 525
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Metrical legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 13
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Metrical legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 13
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Οὗπερ σφραγὶς πέφυκα φυλάττοις Λόγε / κουροπαλάτιν Ῥωμανὸν πιστὸν λάτριν.
O Word, may you watch him whose seal I am, Romanos kouropalates faithful servant.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 25 .
- Parallel(s)
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, , ;
Schlumberger, 1884 p. 46 ;
Laurent, 1932 295 . - Further references
- PBW 2016, Romanos 20104 .
Footnotes