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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-mT2CeA
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 26
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Worn around the edges; effaced and in the process of complete oxidation.
Dating
- Date
- 8th C., first quarter
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Eustathios
Milieu: Aristocracy
Gender: Male - Place of origin
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- 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 527
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig.
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Monogram cruciform with a τ topped by an at the top, an at the base, a in the centre and σ and at the ends; certain solution: Εὐσταθίου; around it, a circular legend that is not very legible.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Two wreath borders surrounding the circular legend; a cross in the upper left corner of the monogram.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Monogram cruciform with a τ topped by an at the top, an at the base, and υ and π at the ends; certain solution: ὑπάτου; around it, a circular legend.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Two wreath borders surrounding the circular legend.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
- Seyrig 30 (Inv. 527), obverse.
- Seyrig 30 (Inv. 527), reverse.
Edition
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Εὐσταθίου. Ἐξελοῦ με, κύριε, ἐξ ἀνθρώπου πονηροῦ. / ὑπάτου. Ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸς ἀδίκου καὶ δολίου ῥῦσαι με.
Eustathios hypatos. Deliver me, Lord, from an evil person, from an unjust and deceitful man, save me.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 30.
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes