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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-zPMU7n
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 1-7
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Slightly indented at the upper opening of the channel and more deeply at the lower opening, with loss of a small portion of the support, without affecting the legibility of the legend on either side or the iconography on the obverse; oxidation in progress.
Dating
- Date
- 10th C., first half.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Titulature, Onomastics
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Aetios
Milieu: Military
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- Macedonia
- 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 607 (olim 699)
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular invocative legend starting at 7.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Patriarchal cross on three steps with fleurons rising to the upper crossbar.
- Decoration
- Circle of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines; a crosslet precedes the legend on the same line.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 20
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
- Digital image of the obverse.
- Digital image of the reverse.
Edition
Legend and translation
+ Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Ἀετίῳ πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ Μακεδονίας.
Lord aid your servant Aetios, patrikios, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Macedonia.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references