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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-uyKOfY
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 18
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
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- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Slightly chipped at the channel openings; the left edge of the obverse is raised; well centered on a large blank.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., second half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Prosopography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Katakalon Saronites
Milieu: Aristocracy
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 488
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig.
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 15
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Above the legend, on a separate line, a cross between two dots; border of dots.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Legend of 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 15
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
- Seyrig 50 (Inv. 488), obverse.
- Seyrig 50 (Inv. 488), reverse.
Edition
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Σφραγὶς Κατακαλών / πατρικίου Σαρωνίτου.
Seal of Katakalon Saronites patrikios.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 50.
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Footnotes