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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-uIStsM - PBW ID: boulloterion 452
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 30
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 2-7
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Heavily worn in the upper part; deep notch in the lower right; the left edge of the reverse is effaced and obliterated.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., third third
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Titulature, Iconography, Prosopography, Parallel
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Apnelgaripes (PBW: Apnelgaripes 20101)
Milieu: Aristocracy
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- 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 158
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig.
- Previous locations
-
Acquired in Beirut.
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 32
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- St. George, standing, holding a spear in his right hand and a shield in his left hand.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 32
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Border of dots; cross at the beginning of the legend on the same line; the last line is between two decorative lines.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
- Seyrig 40 (Inv. 158), obverse.
- Seyrig 40 (Inv. 158), reverse.
Edition
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Γεώργιος / + Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἀπνελγαρίπῃ μαγίστρῳ.
Saint George. + Lord, help your servant Apnelgaripes, magistros.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 40.
- Parallel(s)
- Zacos, 2, 362a et b;
British Museum, Londres, 17687 = Birch, coll. British Museum, 1898, 17687;
Institut français d'études byzantines, Paris, IFEB 1331
Musée de Tarse, Tarse, 972-10-4 = Cheynet, 1994, 18;
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., BZS.1955.1.2203 = DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1955.1.2203;
Musée de Chypre, Nicosie, CM 1951/V-3/4B = Metcalf, Cyprus, 2004, 227;
Musée d'Adana, Adana, 1021;
Spink Auction 132, coll. Zacos, part 2, 1999, Lot 117. - Further references
- No further references
Footnotes