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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-oz2LMQ
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 18
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Broken and destroyed in its upper right third, trimmed on the circumference, indented at the lower orifice of the canal.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., second half-12th C., first half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private patronymic seals
- Issuer
- Michael Axiomatikos
Milieu: Private
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 490
- 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 Basile, bénissant de la main droite et tenant les Évangiles de la gauche; de part et d'autre de l'effigie, épigraphe en colonnes.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 18
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
'Ο ἅγιος Βασίλειος. / Κύριε βοήθει Μιχαὴλ τῷ Ἀξιοματικῷ.
Saint Basil. / Lord help Michael Axiomatikos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 285 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., (Fogg 1232), DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1951.31.5.1232, PBW 2016, Michael 20153 .
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes