SigiDoc: Seal of the strategissa of the Aegean Sea

Medium: Original impression
Material: Lead
Shape: Round
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Execution: Struck
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Condition: Very trimmed around the edge; oxidised; loss of about a quarter, particularly between 9 and 12 ( in relation to the obverse), resulting in the loss of half of the circular inscription on the obverse and the end of almost all the lines of the legend on the reverse..

Category: Provincial administration
Issuer: Anonymous
Milieu: Military
Gender: Female
Place of origin: Aegean Sea
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Modern location: Paris (France)
Institution and repository: Institut Catholique de Paris, Institut Français d’Études Byzantines
Collection and inventory: IFEB 1106 (olim 1217)
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Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Iconography with a circular invocative legend.
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Iconography: Latin cross with pattéed ends, raised on 4 steps and devoid of ornamentation.
Decoration: Indistinct border.
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Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Linear legend of 5 lines.
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Decoration: Indistinct border; the legend is preceded by a decorative line; crosslet at the beginning of the legend, on the same line.
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