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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-MUFl6R
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 23
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Deeply indented at the channel openings and cracked along the channel line; on the reverse stretched and partially obliterated on the right side of the field; otherwise clear engraving.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., second half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- *untranslated*, Prosopography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private patronymic seals
- Issuer
- Theodoros Kaspax
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 338
- 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. 19
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de saint Théodore, barbu, tenant une lance dans sa main droite et de sa main gauche un bouclier orné de perles; de part et d'autre de l'effigie, épigraphe en colonne
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Une croisette précède la légende sur une même ligne; après la légende, sur une ligne séparée, losange de perles croiseté accosté de tirets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἃγιος Θεόδωρος. / Κύριε βοήθει Θεοδώρο τῷ Κάσπακῃ.
Saint Theodore. / Lord help Theodoros Kaspax.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes