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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
- Seals of dignitaries
- Issuer
- Niketas
Milieu: Civil
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- 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
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Cruciform Marian monogram, of the Laurent V type, framed by the usual tetrasyllable
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Traces de couronne de feuillage.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Avant et après la légende, une croisette pattée sur la même ligne.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
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 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Zacos, 1, 3157a et b ;
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1947.2.690 (Shaw 690) . - Further references
- PmbZ Online, Niketas 5399 .
Footnotes