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    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    Matrix
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    Physical description

    Medium
    Original impression
    Material
    Lead
    Shape
    Round
    Dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 21
    Weight (g)
    Channel orientation (clock)
    Axis (clock)
    Overstrike orientation (clock)
    Execution
    Struck
    Countermark
    Condition
    Notched at the channel holes, off-centre to the right on the obverse, pressed and obliterated on the left of the reverse.

    Dating

    Date
    7th C.
    Internal date
    Dating criteria
    Epigraphy
    Alternative date

    History

    Category
    Private seals
    Issuer
    Leontios
    Milieu: Private
    Gender: -
    Place of origin
    Byzantine Empire
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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 511
    Acquisition

    Donation by Henri Seyrig

    Previous locations
    Modern observations

    Obverse

    Language(s)
    Layout of field
    Iconography
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 18
    Matrix
    Iconography
    Buste de la Vierge, avec le buste de l’Enfant entre deux croisettes.
    Decoration
    Couronne de feuillage; de part et d'autre de l'effigie, deux croisettes.
    Epigraphy

    Reverse

    Language(s)
    Layout of field
    Monogram
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 18
    Matrix
    Iconography
    Decoration
    Epigraphy

    Edition

    Interpretive

    rev
    1(Λεοντίου)

    Diplomatic

    obv
    rev

    Apparatus

    None.

    Legend and translation

    Λεοντίου.

    (Seal of) Leontios.

    References

    Edition(s)
    Unpublished
    Parallel(s)
    No parallels known
    Further references
    No further references