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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-tQ0Av2
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- ―
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 29
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
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- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Offset to the left; pierced at the top; slightly indented at the channel holes. Obliterated on the reverse at the top left.
Dating
- Date
- 976-1025
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- *untranslated*, Reign, Prosopography, Iconography, Titulature, Parallel
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Imperial seals
- Issuer
- Basil Constantine II, VIII
Milieu: Imperial
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- 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 980
- Acquisition
-
donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- ―
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 23
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of Christ with beard and long hair, spreading his tunic with his right hand, holding the Gospels in his left hand. The arms of the nimbus are flared at the ends and decorated with five dots arranged as a quincunx.
- Decoration
- Border of dotsBorder of dots
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- ―
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 23
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Busts, facing, of Basil II on the left and Constantine VIII on the right, holding a patriarchal cross between them with their inner hand. Basil II is wearing the loros, Constantine, the chlamyd with the tablion
- Decoration
- ―
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Basileios kai Constantinos basileis Romaion.
Basil and Constantine, basileis of the Romans.
References
- Edition(s)
- Biliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 6 .
- Parallel(s)
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C., Zacos, 1, 76 ;
Münzkabinett des Kunsthistorischen Museums, Vienne, BBÖ, 1, 18 . - Further references