Seal of Alexios Komnenos, protoproedrosshow empty fields
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    SigiDoc ID: s-rLV807

    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    Matrix
    SigiDoc ID: m-ZwwiUh - PBW ID: boulloterion 460

    Physical description

    Medium
    Original impression
    Material
    Lead
    Shape
    Round
    Dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 28
    Weight (g)
    ―
    Channel orientation (clock)
    ―
    Axis (clock)
    ―
    Overstrike orientation (clock)
    ―
    Execution
    Struck
    Countermark
    ―
    Condition
    Slightly chipped at the channel openings; some corroded spots on both sides; otherwise well-centered and clearly struck.

    Dating

    Date
    1077-1078
    Internal date
    ―
    Dating criteria
    Prosopography, Parallel, Titulature
    Alternative date
    ―

    History

    Category
    Dignitaries
    Issuer
    Alexios Komnenos(PBW: Alexios 1)
    Milieu: Aristocracy
    Gender: Male
    Place of origin
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    Find date
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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 456
    Acquisition

    Donation by Henri Seyrig.

    Previous locations
    ―
    Modern observations
    ―

    Obverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Iconography
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 23
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    St Demetrios, facing, beardless, wearing a cuirass, a short chiton and a chlamys, holding a spear in his right hand and a shield in his left hand; on either side of the image, a label in columns.
    Decoration
    Cercle de perles entre deux cercles concentriques de grènetis.Border of dots between two concentric circles of dots.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Reverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Legend of 6 lines.
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 23
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    ―
    Decoration
    Border of dots between two concentric circles of dots; at the beginning of the legend, on the same line, a cross.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Images

    Seyrig 53 (Inv. 456), obverse.
    Seyrig 53 (Inv. 456), reverse.

    Edition

    Interpretive

    obv
    a(Ὁ ἅγιος) Δημή bτριος
    rev
    1Κ(ύρι)ε β(οή)θ(ει)
    2Ἀλεξίῳ
    3πρωτοπρο-
    4έδρῳ τῷ
    5Κομνη-
    6νῷ

    Diplomatic

    obv
    a-δη-μη bτ-ρι-ο̣σ̣
    rev
    1κε̣,θ,
    2αλεξ̣ι
    3πρτοπρο
    4εδρτ
    5κομνη
    6ν

    Apparatus

    None.

    Legend and translation

    Ὁ ἅγιος Δημήτριος. / + Κύριε βοήθει Ἀλεξίῳ πρωτοπροέδρῳ τῷ Κομνηνῷ.

    Saint Demetrios. Lord, help your servant Alexios Komnenos, protoproedros.

    References

    Edition(s)
    Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 53; Zacos, 1, 2704.
    Parallel(s)
    No parallels known
    Further references
    No further references

    Footnotes