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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-JdgnlX
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 29
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Worn edge all around, with large indentations at the channel openings; large and clearly engraved letters; on the reverse, the first line and the initial cross have been destroyed.
Dating
- Date
- 8th C., first half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Titulature
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Niketas (PmbZ: Niketas 5399)
Milieu: Aristocracy
Gender: Male - Place of origin
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- 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 522
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig.
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Cruciform Marian monogram, of the Laurent V type, framed by the usual tetrasyllable.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Traces of a wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- At the beginning and end of the legend, a cross on the same line.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
- Seyrig 36 (Inv. 522), obverse.
- Seyrig 36 (Inv. 522), reverse.
Edition
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Νικήτᾳ πατρικίῳ καὶ μαγίστρῳ +.
Mother of God help your servant Niketas, patrikios and magistros.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 36; Zacos, 1, 3157b.
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. BZS.1947.2.690 (Shaw 690) = Zacos, 1, 3157a; DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1947.2.690 (Shaw 690).
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes