export asSigiDoc ID: s-GjiFba
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-pmtRin
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
- Very xorroded; heavily worn around the edges, especially on the left (on the obverse), with loss of half the circular legend.
Dating
- Date
- 10th C.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Titulature, Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Kosmas (PmbZ: 24107)
Milieu: Military
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 621 (olim 714)
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with a circular legend and maybe inscription in columns.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- The state of preservation of the seal does not allow the iconography to be identified: two figures are shown standing; a seal held in Vienna and belonging to the same issuer allows them to be identified as Saint Demetrios on the right blessing Saint Nestor on the left, both depicted in military garb (see below the commentary).
- Decoration
- Double circle of dots enclosing the circular legend.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of dots very partially preserved.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
- Digital image of the obverse.
- Digital image of the reverse.
Edition
Legend and translation
… / + Κοσμᾷ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ ἐκ προσόπου Θεσαλονίκης.
… Kosmas, imperial protospatharios and ek prosopou of Thessalonica.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- Le sceau de l'IFEB est mentionné dans BBÖ, 2, p. 223, et n. 463 et dans PmbZ Online, 24107