Seal of Anastasios, protospatharios and strategos of the Aegean Seashow empty fields
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    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    Matrix
    SigiDoc ID: m-n0BqoS

    Physical description

    Medium
    Original impression
    Material
    Lead
    Shape
    Round
    Dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 29
    Weight (g)
    ―
    Channel orientation (clock)
    12-5
    Axis (clock)
    ―
    Overstrike orientation (clock)
    ―
    Execution
    Struck
    Countermark
    ―
    Condition
    Broken along the channel, with loss of approximately the right half ( in relation to the obverse); trimmed around the edge; oxidised.

    Dating

    Date
    10th C.
    Internal date
    ―
    Dating criteria
    Titulature, Iconography
    Alternative date
    ―

    History

    Category
    Provincial administration
    Issuer
    Anastasios
    Milieu: Military
    Gender: Male
    Place of origin
    Aegean Sea
    Find place
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    Find date
    ―
    Find circumstances
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    Modern location
    Paris (France)
    Institution and repository
    Institut Catholique de Paris, Institut Français d’Études Byzantines
    Collection and inventory
    IFEB 994 (olim 1104)
    Acquisition
    ―
    Previous locations
    ―
    Modern observations
    ―

    Obverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Iconography, with a circular invocative legend starting at 6..
    Field dimensions (mm)
    ―
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    Cross potent with pearls at the ends, mounted on four steps, with fleurons rising to the middle of the field.
    Decoration
    Indistinct border; a crosslet at the beginning of the legend.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Reverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Linear legend of 5 lines.
    Field dimensions (mm)
    ―
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    ―
    Decoration
    Indistinct border; a lost crosslet probably preceded the beginning of the legend, on the same line.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Images

    Digital image of the obverse.
    Digital image of the reverse.

    Edition

    Interpretive

    obv
    1+Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθη [τῷ σῷ δούλῳ]
    rev
    2[+Ἀν]αστ-
    3[ασίῳ] (πρωτο)σπ[α]-
    4[θ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) στ]ρατηγ(ῷ)
    5[τοῦ] Ἐγέου
    6[Πε]λάγ(ους)

    Diplomatic

    obv
    1ΚΕ̣ΟΗΘΗ̣........
    rev
    2...̣Σ̣Τ̣
    3....̣ΣΠ.
    4....ΡΤΗΓ
    5...Ε̣Γ̣Ε̣ΟΥ̣
    6..Λ̣Γ̣

    Legend and translation

    + Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Ἀναστασίῳ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ τοῦ Ἐγέου Πελάγους.

    Lord aid your servant Anastasios, protospatharios and strategos of the Aegean Sea.

    References

    Edition(s)
    Prigent, 1994, 67.
    Parallel(s)
    No parallels known
    Further references
    No further references