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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-VW6T3O
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 16
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Deeply indented at the canal orifices and nimbed along the canal line; trimmed on the right side.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., last third-12th C., first half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private seals
- Issuer
- Christopher
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 442
- 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. 14,5
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de saint Nicolas; dans le champ, 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 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 14,5
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; une croisette précède le début de la légende sur une même ligne; dernière ligne accostée de deux tirets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἃγιος Νικόλαος. / +Γραφὰς σφραγίζω καὶ λόγους Χριστωφώρου.
Saint Nicholas. / I seal the writings and the words of Christopher.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 329 .
- Parallel(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, (BN 428 d’après Laurent).
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes