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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-nK58Pf
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 26
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Rogné, en voie d’oxydation.
Dating
- Date
- 9th C., second half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Parallel
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Seals of dignitaries
- Issuer
- Michael
Milieu: Civil
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 375
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Cruciform monogram, of the ZACOS-VEGLERY 51 type, framed by the usual tetrasyllable
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Couronne de feuillage.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Légende formée de hautes lettres.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Μιχαήλ πατρικίῳ καὶ βασιλικῷ πρῶτοσπαθαριῳ.
Mother of God help your servant / Michael patrikios and imperial protospatharios.
References
- Edition(s)
- Biliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 47 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes