SigiDoc ID: s-0zD6nQ
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-BoQqvu
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 2-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Corroded; crushed on the right of the obverse and on the left of the reverse with loss of letters of the legend at the end of the lines on the obverse and at the beginning of the lines on the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Titulature, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Ignatios
Milieu: Civil
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- Aegean Sea
- 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 119 (olim 140)
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Border of dots; a crosslet precedes the beginning of the legend on the same line; decorative elements may have been present above the legend, on a separate line .
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of dots very partially preserved; decorative elements - perhaps three pearls - above the legend, on a separate line; below the legend, also on a separate line, perhaps a pearl flanked by dashes .
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Apparatus
9: Le alpha semble bien avoir une forme – – inhabituelle à l’époque.
Legend and translation
+ Ἰγνάτιος σπαθαροκανδιδᾶτος, ἀσηκρῆτις / καὶ κριτὴς τοῦ Ἐγέου Πελάγου.
Ignatios, spatharokandidatos, asekretis and judge of the Aegean Sea.
References
- Edition(s)
- Prigent, 1994, 64.
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references