Seal of Peter, eparchos (?)show empty fields
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    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    Matrix
    SigiDoc ID: m-nLTWPS

    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
    Weak strike; off-centre to the right towards the top, which left a third of the iconographic motif out of focus; pressed and obliterated on the reverse.

    Dating

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

    History

    Category
    Provincial administration
    Issuer
    Peter
    Milieu: Civil
    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 510
    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, de face, avec le buste de l’Enfant
    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(Πέτρου ἐπάρχου)(?)

    Diplomatic

    obv
    rev

    Apparatus

    None.

    Legend and translation

    Πέτρου ἐπάρχου (?).

    (Seal of) Peter, eparchos (?).

    References

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    Unpublished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