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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-aftdFE
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 35
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Slightly trimmed around the rim; indentation at the lower opening of the channel; two notches at the bottom of the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- 12th C., second half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- *untranslated*, Prosopography, Epigraphy, Historical context
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private patronymic seals
- Issuer
- Theodore Chomatenos
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 572
- 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. 30
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Saint Théodore, debout, tenant une lance en main droite et s’appuyant de la gauche sur un bouclier de forme triangulaire; de part et d'autre de l'effigie, épigraphe en colonne.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Metrical legend of 7 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 30
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; une croisette précède la légende sur une même ligne.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἃγιος Θεόδωρος. / + Γραφὰς σφραγίζω Χωματηνοῦ τοὐπίκλην, ἀθλητἀ, τοῦ σοῦ δούλου καὶ συνωνύμου.
Saint Theodore. / I seal the writings of the so-called Chomatenos, martyr, your homonymous servant.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 297, PBW 2016, Theodoros 20125 .
- Parallel(s)
- Istanbul, coll. privée (d’après une note de V. Laurent)
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes