Seal of Michael, proximos of the katepano of Antiochshow empty fields
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    Artifact

    Type
    Seal
    Matrix
    SigiDoc ID: m-0MMuUV

    Physical description

    Medium
    Original impression
    Material
    Lead
    Shape
    Round
    Dimensions (mm)
    Diam. 25
    Weight (g)
    ―
    Channel orientation (clock)
    12-6
    Axis (clock)
    ―
    Overstrike orientation (clock)
    ―
    Execution
    Struck
    Countermark
    ―
    Condition
    Poor state of conservation; strike slightly off-centre towards the top; very oxidised; deep indentation at the lower opening of the channel, starting point of a fracture line along the channel going up to the centre of the support; surface of the reverse flattened on the upper left part and along the edge on the right half.

    Dating

    Date
    11th C., second third
    Internal date
    ―
    Dating criteria
    Titulature, Parallel, Epigraphy
    Alternative date
    ―

    History

    Category
    Provincial administration
    Issuer
    Michael
    Milieu: Military
    Gender: Male
    Place of origin
    Antioch
    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 497 (olim 574)
    Acquisition
    ―
    Previous locations
    ―
    Modern observations
    ―

    Obverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Linear legend of 4 lines.
    Field dimensions (mm)
    ―
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    ―
    Decoration
    Border of dots; after the legend, on a separate line, a 6-rayed star between dashes, which was probably present before the legend too.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Reverse

    Language(s)
    Greek
    Layout of field
    Linear legend of 4 lines.
    Field dimensions (mm)
    ―
    Matrix
    ―
    Iconography
    ―
    Decoration
    Border of dots; after the legend, on a separate line, a 6-rayed star between dashes, which was probably present before the legend too.
    Epigraphy
    ―

    Images

    Digital image of the obverse.
    Digital image of the reverse.

    Edition

    Interpretive

    obv
    1[+Κ(ύρι)]ε β[ο-]
    2[ή]θη το [σ(ο)]
    3δούλο
    4Μιχαὴ(λ)
    rev
    5[π]ροξ[ίμ(ῳ)]
    6[τ]ου κατ[ε-]
    7πάνου Ἀ[ν-]
    8τηοχί(ας)

    Diplomatic

    obv
    1..Ε.
    2.Θ̣ΗΤΟ̣.
    3ΔΟΥΛΟ̣
    4̣ΙΧ̣Η̣
    
    rev
    5.ΡΟ..
    6.ΟΥΚΤ.
    7Π̣̣ΟΥ̣.
    8ΤΗΟΧΙ..
    .̣.

    Apparatus

    1-4: La légende de l’avers a été reconstruite en s’appuyant en partie sur le parallèle de Vienne MK 308.

    Legend and translation

    + Κύριε βοήθη το σο δούλο Μιχαὴλ / προξίμῳ του κατεπάνου Ἀντηοχίας.

    Lord aid your servant Michael, proximos of the katepano of Antioch.

    References

    Edition(s)
    Prigent, 1994, 18.
    Parallel(s)
    Collection Mordtmann, aujourd’hui Vienne, MK 308: , p. 429, no. 3 (avec lecture erronée) = Schlumberger, 1884, p. 310, no. 3 (avec lecture erronée) = BBÖ, 2, 281.
    Further references
    Le sceau IFEB 574, aujourd'hui IFEB 497, est mentionné dans BBÖ, 2, p. 270-271. Le sceau de l'ancienne collection Mordtmann, aujourd’hui Vienne, MK 308, ainsi que le sceau IFEB (qui n'est toutefois identifié que comme "un exemplaire de notre collection") sont mentionnés dans Laurent, 1962, p. 243, note 4 , qui corrige la lecture de G. Schlumberger, et dans Kühn, 1991, p. 90 et note 81.