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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-nm0Dke
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- A few spots of oxidation on this seal, otherwise well centered on a large blank.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., end-12th C., first half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private patronymic seals
- Issuer
- Roman Haploucheir
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 520
- 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. 15
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de la Vierge, orante. Le dessin est net, mais assez schématique. Les plis du maphorion tombent au centre sans l’arrondi habituel. Dans le champ, de part et d'autre de l'effigie, sigle.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Metrical egend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 15
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; avant la légende, sur une ligne séparée, un losange de quatre perles.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. / Ῥωμανον Ἁπλουχεῖρα Παρθένε σκέποις.
Mother of God. / Shelter, Virgin Lady, Roman Aploucheir.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes