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SigiDoc ID: s-CpGaIJ
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-M6AxIm
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 25
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Struck off-centre upwards or blank too small; oxidised, particularly on the lower part, which has damaged the iconography on the obverse and the last lines of the legend on the reverse; the support retains an extension from the moulding; the obverse has two holes in the lower right-hand part.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., middle
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Historical context, Titulature, Prosopography, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Michael Iasites(PBW: Michael 111)
Milieu: Military
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- AniGreater ArmeniaKogobit
- 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 596 (olim 688)
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Finely engraved bust of Saint Dèmètrios, with curly hair, in his usual military garb; inscription in columns on either side of the image.
- Decoration
- Indistinct border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 6 lines, the first two of which are wholly or partly outside the support.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Traces of a border of grenetis; after the legend, on a separate line, a cross of pearls flanked by dashes..
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
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References
- Edition(s)
- Ancienne collection Sorlin-Dorigny: Schlumberger, 1884, p. 737, no. 3 (avec dessin; lecture à corriger) = Seibt, 1976a, no. 2 (qui reprend le dessin de Schlumberger; lecture du nom à corriger). Ce sceau semblerait être celui de l’IFEB: on remarquera entre autres la forme du support, les deux trous à l’avers et l’état de conservation de la légende au revers.
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- Cheynet, 2001, p. p. 56 et n. 16-17 , repris dans Cheynet, 2008e, p. 201 .