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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-qPBMeC
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 27
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Slightly indented at the channel openings; edges raised; obliterated on the reverse left; otherwise well centred and well engraved.
Dating
- Date
- 12th C., beginning
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private patronymic seals
- Issuer
- Basil Mesopotamites
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 439
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 23
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de saint Nicolas avec la barbe courte, bénissant de la main droite, tenant les Evangiles de la main gauche. L’ômophorion est orné d’un losange de perles. Dans le champs, 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. 23
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; une croisette précède la légende sur une même ligne.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἃγιος Νικόλαος. / Σφραγὶς Βασιλείου Μεσοποταμίτου.
Saint Nicholas. Seal of Basil Mesopotamites.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 312, Schlumberger, 1881 2, Laurent, 1932 382, PBW 2016, Basileios 20129 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes