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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-BbxIGA
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 28
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Offset to the left; deeply indented to the right, pressed and stretched.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., second half-12th C., beginning
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Parallel
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private patronymic seals
- Issuer
- Photios Syros
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 296
- 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. 22
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de saint Georges, tenant en main droite une lance et en main gauche un bouclier orné de perles. 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. 22
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; un losange de perles précède le début de la légende sur une même ligne; après la légende, sur une ligne séparée, une perle accostée de tirets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἃγιος Γεώργιος. / Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Φωτίῳ τῷ Σύρῳ.
Saint George. / Lord help your servant Photios Syros.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 319 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.2558, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1947.2.1299, PBW 2016, Photios 20102 .
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes