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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-aDXnC2
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 11-5
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Trimmed around the edge; blank too small for the boulloterion, causing losses to the legend on both the obverse and reverse; very oxidised; indented at the openings of the channel, particularly the lower one, with a fracture line along the channel visible on the reverse..
Dating
- Date
- 10th C., second half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Iconography
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- N.
Milieu: Military
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- Kibyrrhaiotai
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Paris (France)
- Institution and repository
- Institut Catholique de Paris, Institut Français d’Études Byzantines
- Collection and inventory
- IFEB 989 (olim 1099)
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography: there is no circular legend, which was probably left out due to the limited size of the blank.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Patriarchal cross on a globe and on steps that have disappeared (except for the first one); X at crossbars, which terminate with pearls; fleurons rising up to the middle of the field.
- Decoration
- Indistinct border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend on 6 lines, 4 of which are still visible.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Indistinct border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
- Digital image of the obverse.
- Digital image of the reverse.
Edition
Apparatus
2: Prigent, 1994, 58 : [Λ]έ[ο(ντι)].
Legend and translation
+ Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ (?) / N., βασιλικῷ (?) πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ τῶν Κιβιρραιωτῶν.
Lord aid your servant (?) N., imprial (?) protospatharios and strategos of the Kibyrrhaiotai.
References
- Edition(s)
- Prigent, 1994, 58 = Karagiorgou, Charalampakis, Malatras, 2016, 20.
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- Karagiorgou, Charalampakis, Malatras, 2021, mentionné avec identifiant KIB_78 (IFEB 1099).