SigiDoc ID: s-XY4qRR
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-dhYY04
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 27
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Fortement pressé et oblitéré à la base; décentré au revers vers le sommet; en voie d’oxydation.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., second third
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Titulature, Iconography
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Seals of dignitaries
- Issuer
- John
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 461
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 24
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Vierge du type Nikopoios, à mi-corps, avec l’Enfant sur la poitrine. Sigle.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 24
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; avant la légende, surmontée d'une croisette et suivie d'une croix cantonné de perles.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. / + Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἰωάννῃ μαγίστρῳ.
Mother of God. / Mother of God aid your servant John, magistros.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 37 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes