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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-YXbfN3
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
- Deeply indented at the top of the channel, notched on the reverse on the left.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., end-12th C., first half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private seals
- Issuer
- Constantine
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 421
- 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. 15
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Vierge assise sur un trône sans dossier, avec le médaillon; 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 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 15
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; avant la légende, sur une ligne séparée, une croisette accostée de deux tirets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. / Πράξεις σφραγίζω καὶ γραφὰς Κωνσταντίνου.
Mother of God. / I seal the acts and writings of Constantine.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 332 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. (coll. Zacos (quatre ex.), Zacos, 2, 405, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.3716, DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.1189 .
- Further references
- No further references