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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-Ssmzex
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 30
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Profonde échancrure aux orifices du canal disposé de biais; éraflures et légères entailles sur les deux faces.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., second quart
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Titulature, Onomastics
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical seals
- Issuer
- John
Milieu: Secular Church
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
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- Find date
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- 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 1
- 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. 18
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de saint Jean Chrysostome, nimbé, tenant dans la main droite une petite croix et, dans la main gauche, le livre des Évangiles; barbe très courte et figure ascétique.
- Decoration
- Cercles de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 18
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercles de grènetis. Légende précédée d’une croisette.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος. / Ἰωάννῃ ἐλέῳ Θεοῦ μητροπολίτῃ Μελιτηνῆς.
St John Chrysostomos. John by the grace of God metropolitan of Melitene.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 258 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Laurent, Corpus, 5.1, 434 (cet ex. ill.), DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.336, DO Seals, 4, 68.8b., DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.291, DO Seals, 4, 68.8a., PBW 2016, Ioannes 272 .
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes