Seal of Romanos, kouropalatesshow empty fields
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    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    Matrix
    SigiDoc ID: m-W0MdJB - PBW ID: boulloterion 448

    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
    Effaced and obliterated on the right; slightly struck-off towards the right; corroded.

    Dating

    Date
    11th C., end-12th C., beginning
    Internal date
    ―
    Dating criteria
    Prosopography, Titulature
    Alternative date
    ―

    History

    Category
    Dignitaries
    Issuer
    Romanos (PBW: Romanos 20104)
    Milieu: Aristocracy
    Gender: Male
    Place of origin
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    Find date
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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 525
    Acquisition

    Donation by Henri Seyrig.

    Previous locations
    ―
    Modern observations
    ―

    Obverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Metrical legend of 5 lines.
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 13
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    ―
    Decoration
    Border of dots.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Reverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Metrical legend of 5 lines.
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 13
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    ―
    Decoration
    Border of dots.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Images

    Seyrig 25 (Inv. 525), obverse.
    Seyrig 25 (Inv. 525), reverse.

    Edition

    Interpretive

    obv

    1Οὗπερ
    2σφραγὶς
    3πέφυκα φ[υ-]
    4λάττοι[ς]
    5Λόγε
    rev

    6κουρο-
    7παλάτι[ν]
    8Ῥωμανὸ[ν]
    9πιστ(ὸν) λά-
    10τριν

    Diplomatic

    obv
    1περ̣
    2σραφις
    3π̣ε̣̣υκα̣.
    4Λαττοι.
    5λογε
    rev
    6κρο̣
    7παλατι̣.
    8ρμανο̣.
    9Π̣ιστλα
    10τριν

    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)
    Collection Schlumberger = , 56, n° 60; Schlumberger, 1884, p. 46, n° 23; Laurent, 1932, p. 160, n° 295.
    Further references
    No further references

    Footnotes