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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-VRmxGp
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 35
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Trimmed at the extremities and around the left edge; large letters in fine relief on both sides.
Dating
- Date
- 12th C., end-13th C.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private patronymic seals
- Issuer
- George Pentarkles
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 136
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 33
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Saint Georges, debout, en costume militaire, tenant une lance dans la main droite et posant sa main gauche sur l’extrémité supérieure d’un bouclier bordé de perles, de forme triangulaire. On remarquera la position inhabituelle du bouclier qui ne repose pas sur le sol. 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 6 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 33
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; avant la légende, sur une ligne séparée, une croisette accostée de tirets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἃγιος Γεώργιος. / Γενοῦ, ἀθλητἀ, τῶν γραφῶν Γεωργίου | τοῦ Πενταρκλῆ στήρηγμα κε τῶν πρακτέων.
Saint George. / Martyr, become the confirmation of the writings and acts of Georgios Pentarkles.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 314 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Laurent, 1932, 594, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1951.31.5.480, PBW 2016, Georgios 20113 , Vatican 189, Varsovie 92.
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes