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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-h3WTb4
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
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- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 27
- 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
- Uniface. Swelling around the rim; broken on the right; indented at the channel openings; very fine strike.
Dating
- Date
- 790-792
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Reign, Titulature, Prosopography, Epigraphy, Parallel
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Imperial
- Issuer
- Constantine VI,
Milieu: Imperial
Gender: Male - Place of origin
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- 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 907
- Acquisition
-
donation by Henri Seyrig.
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek in Latin script
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of the emperor, facing, wearing the stemma, dressed with the chlamys, holding in his right hand the cruciger globe and in his left hand, the akakia.
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Undetermined
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- ―
- Epigraphy
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Images
- Seyrig 5 (Inv. 907), obverse.
- Seyrig 5 (Inv. 907), reverse.
Edition
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Constantinos basileus.
Constantine, emperor.
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, p. 23, no. 5; Zacos, 1, p. 37, no. 38.
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Comme l’ont fait remarquer G. Zacos et A. Veglery, la présence du à la fin de la légende s’explique par une copie du sceau sur le modèle du solidus. Le est la marque d’une des deux officines responsables de la frappe d’or à cette époque, sur ces marques de contrôle[1].
Footnotes
[1]. 1993, 1, p. 78-80 .