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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-QVedQl
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
- Trimmed in its lower part; indented at the canal openings; reverse pressed and partially obliterated along the canal line.
Dating
- Date
- 12th C.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private patronymic seals
- Issuer
- Constantine Melissenos
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 464
- 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. 21
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- La Vierge, légèrement de profil, tournée vers l’Enfant qu’elle tient sur son bras gauche; de part et d'autre de l'effigie, sigle.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Metrical legend of 7 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; avant la légende, sur une ligne séparée, une croisette.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. / Κωνσταντῖνόν με τὸν Μελισσηνὸν σκέποις | Εὐεργέτις διδοῦσα καὶ πλάτος βίου.
Mother of God. / Benefactress, may you protect me, Constantine Melissenos, and giving a long life.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 311 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Schlumberger, 1881, 3, Laurent, 1932, 212, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1955.1.3902, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1955.1.3901, PBW 2016, Konstantinos 20134 .
- Further references
- 1990, p. 73 .
Footnotes