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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-87YOtn
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Trimmed all around; blank wider than the seal; cracked and notched along the channel line.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., last quarter-12th C., beginning
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- *untranslated*, Prosopography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private patronymic seals
- Issuer
- Bardas Hikanatos
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 370
- 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. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de la Vierge, orante, avec le médaillon ovale 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 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Avant la légende, sur une ligne séparée, une croisette.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. / Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Βάρδᾳ τῷ Ἱκανάτῳ.
Mother of God. / Mother of God helo your servant Bardas Ikanatos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes