Seal of Mouselios Pakourianos, proedrosshow empty fields
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    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    Matrix
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    Physical description

    Medium
    Original impression
    Material
    Lead
    Shape
    Round
    Dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 27
    Weight (g)
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    Channel orientation (clock)
    ―
    Axis (clock)
    ―
    Overstrike orientation (clock)
    ―
    Execution
    Struck
    Countermark
    ―
    Condition
    Chipped at the channel openings; pierced on the obverse and a very deep notch on the reverse; struck off-center to the left.

    Dating

    Date
    11th C., last third
    Internal date
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    Dating criteria
    Prosopography, Epigraphy
    Alternative date
    ―

    History

    Category
    Dignitaries
    Issuer
    Mouselios Pakourianos
    Milieu: Aristocracy
    Gender: Male
    Place of origin
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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 305
    Acquisition

    Donation by Henri Seyrig.

    Previous locations
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    Modern observations
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    Obverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Iconography
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 25
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    The Virgin, seated on a throne with a pearl-adorned backrest, holding before her the medallion of Christ; sigla on either side of the image; For a better preserved example of the Virgin holding the imago clipeata of Christ, see the seals of Basilakios, a relative of the Pakourianoi [1].
    Decoration
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    Epigraphy
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    Reverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Legend of 6 lines.
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 25
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    ―
    Decoration
    Border of dots; at the beginning of the legend, a cross.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Images

    Seyrig 51 (Inv. 305), obverse.
    Seyrig 51 (Inv. 305), reverse.

    Edition

    Interpretive

    obv
    a[Μ(ήτη)ρ] bΘ(εο)[ῦ]
    rev
    1Θ(εοτό)κε [β(οή)θ(ει)]
    2τῷ σῷ [δού(λῳ)]
    3Μουσε[λίῳ]
    4προέ[δρῳ]
    5τῷ Πακου[ρ-]
    6[ι]ανῷ

    Diplomatic

    obv
    a.. bθ.
    rev
    1θκε..
    2τσ̣..
    3μσε̣...
    4προ̣ε...
    5τπακ̣.
    6.αν̣

    Apparatus

    None.

    Legend and translation

    Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. / + Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Μουσελίῳ προέδρῳ τῷ Πακουριανῷ.

    Mother of God. Mother of God aid your servant Mouselios Pakourianos proedros.

    References

    Edition(s)
    Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 51.
    Parallel(s)
    No parallels known
    Further references
    No further references

    Footnotes

    [1]. Zacos, 1, 2692 et en général, Seibt, 1987, p. 44 s..