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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-zaRJM0
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- A few nicks have led to points of oxidation, otherwise nice strike.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., last third
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- *untranslated*, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private patronymic seals
- Issuer
- Anastasios Kyritzes
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 324
- 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. 17
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of St. Basil, making with the right hand the gesture of the speech and holding in the left hand the book of the Gospels decorated with pearls. Sigle.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 17
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; une croisette précède la légende sur une même ligne.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Βασίλειος. / Κύριε βοήθει Ἀναστασίῳ τῷ Κυρίτζῃ.
Saint Basil. / Lord help Anastasios Kyritzes.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 307 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., (Fogg 2194) DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1955.1.3127, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1955.1.3126, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1951.31.5.2194, PBW 2016, Anastasios 20102 . Istanbul, série Osman n. 16.
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes