SigiDoc ID: s-Z5tEEd
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-AWbVAC
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Average condition; oxidation in progress; trimmed around the edges; The circular legend and the sigla on the obverse remain visible only on the right, and the lines of the legend on the reverse are heavily deteriorated.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Titulature, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Leo
Milieu: Civil
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- Strymon
- Find place
- ―
- 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 410 (olim 471)
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with a circular invocative legend very partially preserved; the sigla is only visible on the right side of the image.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of the Virgin, praying, with the cruciger medallion of the Child.
- Decoration
- Traces of a border of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Traces of a border of dots; before the legend, on a separate line, decorative elements can be discerned, possibly two dashes and a poorly preserved central element, perhaps a cross.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. + Θεότοκε βοήθει / Λέοντι βεστάρχῃ, κριτῃ τοῦ βήλου καὶ Στρυμόνος.
Mother of God. Mother of God help Leo, vestarches and judge of the Velum and of the Strymon.
References
- Edition(s)
- Prigent, 1994, 129 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references