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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-YB1i00
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Slightly pressed and cancelled on both sides, raised on the edges.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., second half
- 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
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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 426
- 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. 19
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de saint Michel, tenant le sceptre et le globe; deux rangées de perles autour du cou, cinq points sur la bande centrale du lôros qui est ici très étroite; dans le champ, de part et d'autre de l'effigie, sigle.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; une croisette précède le début de la légende sur une même ligne; la dernière ligne est accostée de deux tirets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Ἀρχάγγελος Μιχαήλ. / +Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Μηχαήλ.
Archangel Michael. / Lord help your servant Michael.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references