SigiDoc ID: s-q1kWUo
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-f1y5u6
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 29
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Échancré aux orifices du canal ; au revers, profonde entaille le long du canal et plusieurs points d’oxydation.
Dating
- Date
- 12th C., first half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Prosopography, Parallel, Epigraphy, Titulature
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Seals of dignitaries
- Issuer
- Hetoum
Milieu: Aristocracy
Gender: - - Place of origin
- Byzantine Empire
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Paris (France)
- Institution and repository
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques
- Collection and inventory
- Henri Seyrig Collection 922
- Acquisition
-
Donation by Henri Seyrig
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- *untranslated*
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Buste de la Vierge, orante, avec le médaillon du Christ; de part et d'autre de l'effigie, sigle.
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- ―
- Layout of field
- Legend of 6 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 21
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Cercle de grènetis; une croisette précède la légende sur une même ligne.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
obv
rev
Apparatus
None.
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. / + Σκέποις με Μήτερ τοῦ Θεανθρώπου Λόγου Χετοὺμ σεβαστὸν γόνον τὸν τοῦ Ὀσίνη.
Mother of God. Mother of the Divine Word made flesh, watch over me, Hetoum, sebastos, son of Oshin.
References
- Edition(s)
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 65 .
- Parallel(s)
- Spink Auction 132, coll. Zacos, part 2, 1999, 133 .
- Further references
- PBW 2016, Hetoum 20101 .
Commentary
Footnotes