export as obv
aS(igillum)(?) Jesus Christi
rev
b+Vos piscatores hominum
SigiDoc ID: s-Ep1DdL
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-ueoHSv
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 48
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Note the absence of a channel. Is it a medal or a modern copy?
Dating
- Date
- 12th C.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- *untranslated*, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Private seals
- Issuer
- Fishers of
Milieu: Private
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 965
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 48
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Deux personnages nimbés assis de face de part et d’autre d’un autel (?) surmonté d’une croix.
- Decoration
- Légende commençant à 7 h entre deux filets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 48
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Probablement deux pêcheurs (apôtres?) en bateau. A gauche, un personnage (le Christ?). Légende commençant à 12 (?) h entre deux filets; une croisette précède la légende.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Sigillum Jesus Christi. / +Vos piscatores hominum.
Seal of Jesus Christ./ You fishers of men.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes