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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-sHYvcC
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 34
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- The upper left quarter was washed out; buckled and cracked along the channel line.
Dating
- Date
- 12th C., second half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- *untranslated*, Parallel, Prosopography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private patronymic seals
- Issuer
- John Chrysanthos
Milieu: Private
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- 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 415
- 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. 28
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de face de la Vierge orante, avec le médaillon du Christ enfant, au type de l’Épiskepsis; de part et d'autre de l'effigie, sigle.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 28
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Avant la légende, sur une ligne séparée, une croisette accostée de perles; après la légende, sur une ligne séparée, une perle accostée de tirets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. / Ἰωάννην Χρύσανθον ἁγνή με σκέποις.
Mother of God. / Shelter me, pure Lady, John Chrysanthos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 298 .
- Parallel(s)
- Numismatic Museum of Athens, Athens; Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Konstantopoulos, coll. Athens, 1917, 701α-γ, Laurent, 1932, 186, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1947.2.1063, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.2206, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.5495, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1955.1.3888, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1947.2.1064, PBW 2016, Ioannes 20171 . Coll. Zacos (trois ex.)
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes