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S(anctus) Si[r] us [+Ian]uaensis archiepisco(pus)
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[Ci]vitas ianuensis
SigiDoc ID: s-aBPiWB
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-uo3BNw
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 40
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Trimmed around the edges and especially at the top; letters partly obliterated.
Dating
- Date
- 12th C.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- *untranslated*, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Ecclesiastical seals
- Issuer
- Undetermined
Milieu: Secular Church
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- Tyre (Ṣūr)
- 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 741
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 24
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de saint nimbé; de part et d'autre de l'effigie, épigraphe en colonne
- Decoration
- Légende entre deux filets
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 24
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Représentation du château de Gênes, caractérisé par un montant au milieu de la port; légende entre deux filets
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Sanctus Sirus +Ianuaensis archiepiscopus. / Civitas ianuensis.
Saint Syrus, archbishop of Genoa. / City of Genoa.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes