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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m
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
- Hole on the left side of the right side, which has led to the obliteration of part of the legend; sends oxidation; otherwise the preserved letters are clearly engraved.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., second half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- *untranslated*, Prosopography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private patronymic seals
- Issuer
- Romanos Kenchres
Milieu: Private
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Paris (France)
- Institution and repository
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques
- Collection and inventory
- Henri Seyrig Collection 293
- 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. 18
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de la Vierge, orante, sans le médaillon; de part et d'autre de l'effigie, sigle.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 18
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Couronne de perles entre deux cercles: une croisette précède la légende sur une même ligne.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. / Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ῥωμανῷ τῷ Κέγχρῃ.
Mother of God. / Mother of God help your servant Romanos Kenchres.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 305 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. (Fogg 1582, Shaw 1196), DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1955.1.3102, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1955.1.3101, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1947.2.1196, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1951.31.5.1582, PBW 2016, Romanos 20107 .
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes