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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-7hkXiN
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
- Deep indentation on left edge; slight indentation at canal openings, well centred; letters clearly engraved.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., last third-12th C., first quarter
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private
- Issuer
- Anonymous
Milieu: Private
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- 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 286
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 16
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Saint Michel de face, en buste, tenant de sa main droite le sceptre bouleté et de sa main gauche le globe non crucigère; de part et d'autre de l'effigie, sigle.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Metrical legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 16
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; avant la légende, sur une ligne séparée, une croisette; la dernière ligne de la légende est accostée de tirets
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
3-4: Ici σγραφὴ serait mis pour εἰσγραφὴ après disparition de la vocale initiale.
Legend and translation
Μιχαήλ. / Σφραγὶς τίνος πέφυκα σγραφὴ δικνύι.
Michael. / The letter shows whose seal I am.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references