export asSigiDoc ID: s-3JWKAR
Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-atJ2gY
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 26
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Trimmed around the edge; indentation at the lower opening of the channel on the reverse, damaging the last line of the legend; obverse in a better state of conservation than the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- 8th-9th C.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Decoration
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Leo
Milieu: Civil
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- Methone
- 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 721 (olim 814)
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Cruciform invocative monogram of the Laurent V type, flanked by the usual syllables.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Traces of a wreath border; a crosslet precedes the beginning of the legend, on the same line; the last line is flanked by tendrils, of which the one at the beginning of the line is lost.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
- Digital image of the obverse.
- Digital image of the reverse.
Edition
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Λέοντι ἐκ προισώπου Μοθώνης.
Mother of God aid your servant Leo, ek prosopou of Modon.
References
- Edition(s)
- Prigent, 1994, 94.
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references