SigiDoc: Seal of Theodore, dioeketes of the Sacred Largesse and of the Apotheca of Tyre (?)

Medium: Original impression
Material: Lead
Shape: Round
Dimensions (mm): Diam. 30 à 42
Weight (g): ―
Channel orientation (clock): ―
Axis (clock): ―
Overstrike orientation (clock): ―
Execution: Struck
Countermark: ―
Condition: Unifacial, bearing the imprint of a coarse cloth on the spine; heavily trimmed on the right and left; deep indentations at the channel openings. Modern copy?

Category: Provincial administration
Issuer: Theodore, dioeketes
Milieu: Civil
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 764
Acquisition: Donation by Henri Seyrig
Previous locations: ―
Modern observations: ―

Language(s): *untranslated*
Layout of field: Iconography with legend in columns
Field dimensions (mm): Diam. 39
Matrix: ―
Iconography: Cinq bustes: au centre, la Vierge nimbée avec le médaillon du Christ, à sa droite, Héraclius et Héraclius Constantin, à sa gauche, Martine et Héraclonas.
Decoration: ―
Epigraphy: ―

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1Θεοδώρου μεγα-
2[λ]οπρ[ε]π(εστάτου) ἰλλουστ[ρ-]
3ίου διοικητ(οῦ) τῶν ἁ-
4[π]αντ[αχ]οῦ [Θίων λα-
5ρ]γ(ιτιόνων) (καὶ) ἀ[πο]θ[ήκ(ης)]
6[Τύρ]ου

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Θεοδώρου μεγαλοπρεπεστάτου ἰλλουστρίου διοικητοῦ τῶν ἁπανταχοῦ Θίων λαργιτιόνων καὶ ἀποθήκης Τύρου.

(Seal of) Theodore, magnificent illustris dioiketes of all Sacred Largesse and of the Apotheca of Tyre.

Edition(s): Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 395, Zacos, 1, 131 (cet ex. ill.) .
Parallel(s): No parallels known
Further references: No further references