SigiDoc ID: s-vV36FC
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-ZDIXLm
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 24
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Légèrement rogné dans sa partie supérieure; en voie d’oxydation, sinon complet.
Dating
- Date
- 9th C., beginning
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Titulature
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical seals
- Issuer
- Markianos
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 693
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Monogram similar to the Laurent V type, framed by the usual tetrasyllabe.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Bordure.
- 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.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Μαρκιανῷ ἀρχιεπισκόπῳ Θηβῶν.
Theotokos help your servant Markianos, archbishop of Thebes.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes