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    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    Matrix
    SigiDoc ID: m-6oYTLM

    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
    Cropped on the right, pressed and cancelled on the left of the obverse and the right of the reverse, some nicks on the reverse.

    Dating

    Date
    12th C., second half
    Internal date
    Dating criteria
    *untranslated*, Epigraphy
    Alternative date

    History

    Category
    Private patronymic seals
    Issuer
    Basil Lependrenos
    Milieu: Private
    Gender: -
    Place of origin
    Byzantine Empire
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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 521
    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. 24
    Matrix
    Iconography
    Saint Basile, à mi-corps, bénissant de la droite et tenant les Évangiles de la gauche; de part et d'autre de l'effigie, épigraphe en colonne.
    Decoration
    Cercle de grènetis.
    Epigraphy

    Reverse

    Language(s)
    Layout of field
    Metrical legend of 5 lines
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 24
    Matrix
    Iconography
    Decoration
    Cercle de grènetis; avant la légende, sur une ligne séparée, une croisette.
    Epigraphy

    Edition

    Interpretive

    obv
    [(Ὁ ἃγιος) Β]α[σί] λειος
    rev
    1Τοῦ Λε-
    2πενδρην[οῦ]
    3σφράγισμ[α]
    4Βασιλε[ί]-
    5ου

    Diplomatic

    obv
    rev

    Apparatus

    None.

    Legend and translation

    Ὁ ἅγιος Βασίλειος. / Τοῦ Λεπενδρηνοῦ σφράγισμα Βασιλείου.

    Saint Basil. / Seal of Basil Lependrenos.

    References

    Edition(s)
    Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 308 .
    Parallel(s)
    Dumbarton Oaks, D.C. (coll. Zacos) PBW 2016, Basileios 20128
    Further references
    No further references

    Footnotes