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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-LmOaKN
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Blank raised in its upper part; letters faintly engraved; general poor state of preservation.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., last third-12th C., first third
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private patronymic seals
- Issuer
- Kalos Tourmarchopoulos
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 435
- 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. 14
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de la Vierge, orante, portant le médaillon de l'Enfant sur la poitrine; dans le champ, de part et d'autre de l'effigie, sigle.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Metrical legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 14
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; avant la légende, sur une ligne séparée, une croisette.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. / Καλὸν σκέποις με Τουρμαρχόπωλον, κόρη.
Mother of God. / Shelter me, Lady, Kalo Tourmarchopolos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 321 .
- Parallel(s)
- Rumanian Academy of Letters, Bucarest (Anc. coll. Orghidan); Anc. coll. Pozzi 94; Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Laurent, coll. Orghidan, 1952, 475, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1951.31.5.859, PBW 2016, Kalos 20101 ,.
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes