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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-eyUzx3
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 17
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Straight pressed and partially obliterated; indented at the canal orifices.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., last third
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private seals
- Issuer
- Michael
Milieu: Private
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
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- Find date
- ―
- 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 303
- 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
- Buste de saint Nicolas, barbu, au geste indistinct; 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. 15
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; une croisette précède le début de la légende sur une même ligne; après la légende, sur une ligne séparée, une perle accostée de deux tirets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἃγιος Νικόλαος. / +Ἃγιε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Μιχαήλ.
Saint Nicholas. / Saint help your servant Michael.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 341 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. (Shaw 1511).
- Further references
- No further references