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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-txoqHY
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- ―
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25-30
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
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- Axis (clock)
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- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Heavily trimmed; deep indentations at canal openings; partially obliterated.
Dating
- Date
- 751-775
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- *untranslated*, Prosopography, Reign, Titulature, Epigraphy, Parallel
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Imperial seals
- Issuer
- Constantine Leo V, IV
Milieu: Imperial
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 816b
- Acquisition
-
donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- ―
- Field dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
- Potent cross above three steps. Around it, a Trinitarian legend, here illegible.
- Decoration
- ―
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of six lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
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- Epigraphy
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Edition
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Constantinos καὶ Leon pistoi basilis Romaion.
Constantine and Leo, faithful emperors of the Romans
References
- Edition(s)
- Biliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 4 .
- Parallel(s)
- Musée de Sofia, Sofia, 1934, p. 334, 4 ;
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Zacos, 1, 36a . - Further references
- No further references
Footnotes
[1]. BBÖ, 1, 16 .