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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-tSDdNG
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 12-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Average state of preservation: oxidation in progress; trimmed around the edges; indentations at the channel openings; swelling at the upper end of the channel; the lower letter of the monogram on the obverse and the last line of the legend on the reverse are almost entirely lost.
Dating
- Date
- 8th-9th C.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Historical context, Titulature, Parallel
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Leo (PmbZ: 4376)
Milieu: Civil
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 181 (olim 214)
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Cruciform invocative monogram of the Laurent V type, flanked by the usual syllables.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Wreath border partially preserved.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 6 lines, of which the last one is almost lost; a crosslet precedes the legend on the same line.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Wreath border of which virtually nothing remains.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
- Digital image of the obverse.
- Digital image of the reverse.
Edition
Apparatus
2-7: On remarquera l’emploi du génitif au revers après une invocation au datif à l’avers.
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Λεώντος βασιλικοῦ κουμερκηαρίου καὶ ἀβυδητηκοῦ Θεσσαλονίκης.
Mother of God aid you servant Leo, imperial kommerkiarios and abydetikos of Thessalonica.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- Collection Dumbarton Oaks, BZS.1947.2.171: Zacos, 1, 3134 = DO Seals, 1, 18.4a = DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1947.2.171 ;
Collection Dumbarton Oaks, BZS.1958.106.3951: Zacos, 1, 2101d = DO Seals, 1, 18.4b = DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1958.106.3951 ;
Collection privée américaine: Braunlin-Nesbitt, 1999, 4 .
Un autre sceau, appartenant à la collection Sorlin-Dorigny, qui pourraît être un parallèle est édité par Schlumberger, 1884, p. 740 , avec une mauvaise lecture du terme abydètikos (lu aulètès) = Mordtmann, 1882-1883, 11 (avec lecture exacte) = . - Further references
- Sur le parallèle de la collection privée américaine: Scholarly Articles 1997-2001, p. 161, no. 4 ; sur les parallèles de la collection de Dumbarton Oaks: PmbZ Online 4376 ; voir aussi Bibicou, 1963, p. 232, no. 80 .