SigiDoc ID: s-F8MJKr
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-pAw1tT
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Blank too small and resulting strike shifted to the left, with loss of much of the circular legend on the obverse and on the reverse of the ends of the lines of the legend, as well as of the first line; trimmed around the edge..
Dating
- Date
- 10th C.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Titulature, Iconography, Decoration
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- N.
Milieu: Military
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- Thessalonica
- 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 1139 (olim 1250)
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with a circular invocative legend starting at 7.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Patriarchal cross on two visible steps and fleurons rising from the base to mid-field, at the first crossbar; X at crossbars.
- Decoration
- Indistinct border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 4 lines, of which the first one is lost.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Indistinct border; decorative elements follow the legend on a separate line, placed between pearls and dashes.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
+ Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλο / … πατρικίῳ καὶ δουκὶ Θεσαλονίκης.
Lord help your servant N., patrikios and doux of Thessalonica.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references