Seal of Niketas, protoproedrosshow 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. 18
    Weight (g)
    ―
    Channel orientation (clock)
    ―
    Axis (clock)
    ―
    Overstrike orientation (clock)
    ―
    Execution
    Struck
    Countermark
    ―
    Condition
    Worn around the egdes; heavily chipped and torn at the channel opnenings.

    Dating

    Date
    1070-1090
    Internal date
    ―
    Dating criteria
    Epigraphy, Titulature, Onomastics
    Alternative date
    ―

    History

    Category
    Dignitaries
    Issuer
    Niketas
    Milieu: Aristocracy
    Gender: Male
    Place of origin
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    Find place
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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 483
    Acquisition

    Donation by Henri Seyrig.

    Previous locations
    ―
    Modern observations
    ―

    Obverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Iconography
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 17
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    The Virgin seated on a throne with a backrest, holding the Child on her lap; the backrest is decorated with pearls; on either side of the image, sigla.
    Decoration
    Border of dots.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Reverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Legend of 5 lines.
    Field dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 17
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    ―
    Decoration
    Border of dots; at the beginning of the legend, on the same line, a cross.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Images

    Seyrig 54 (Inv. 483), obverse.
    Seyrig 54 (Inv. 483), reverse.

    Edition

    Interpretive

    obv
    a[Μ(ήτη)ρ] bΘ(εο)ῦ
    rev
    1Θ(εοτό)κε β(οή)θ(ει)
    2τῷ σῷ δού(λῳ)
    3Νικήτᾳ (πρωτο)-
    4προέδρ-
    5ῳ

    Diplomatic

    obv
    a.. bθυ̣
    rev
    1θκε,θ,
    2τσδ
    3νικηταΑ͂
    4προ̣ε̣δρ
    5

    Apparatus

    None.

    Legend and translation

    Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. / + Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νικήτᾳ πρωτοπροέδρῳ.

    Mother of God. Mother of God aid your servant Niketas, protoproedros.

    References

    Edition(s)
    Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 54.
    Parallel(s)
    No parallels known
    Further references
    No further references

    Footnotes