SigiDoc ID: s-OzrpVu
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-pyzkwe
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 30
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Très mauvaise conservation ; à la base, une grande entaille a détruit la fin de la légende ; en voie d’oxydation.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., last third
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Titulature
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Seals of dignitaries
- Issuer
- Romanos N.
Milieu: Aristocracy
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 332
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de la Vierge Nikopoios, tenant le médaillon de l’Enfant.
- Decoration
- ―
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 5 or 6 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Au-dessus de la légende, une croisette accostée de deux tirets.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει / Ῥωμανῷ πρωτοβεστάρχῃ και ἀνθυπάτῳ τῷ ...
Theotokos help Romanos N., protovestarches and anthypatos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 62 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references
Commentary
Footnotes