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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-g62sUz - PBW ID: 4316
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
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- Weight (g)
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- Channel orientation (clock)
- 12-6
- Axis (clock)
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- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
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- Condition
- Indented at the channel openings; worn around the edge; strike slightly off-centre.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., second half
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Private seals
- Issuer
- John Beriotes(PBW: Ioannes 20503; PBW: Ioannes 20402)
Milieu: Private
Gender: Male - Place of origin
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- Find place
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- Find date
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- Find circumstances
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- Modern location
- Paris (France)
- Institution and repository
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques
- Collection and inventory
- Zacos BnF 106
- Acquisition
-
Gift of Janet Zacos, 1998
- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Circle of dots; a crosslet precedes the legend on the same line.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 3 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of dots; the legend is preceded and followed, on separate lines, by decorative elements consisting of two dashes in the middle of which, according to the parallel pieces, there appears to have been a dot or a pearl.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
- Digital image of the obverse.
- Digital image of the reverse.
Edition
Legend and translation
+ Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / Ἰωάννῃ τῷ Βηριώτῃ.
Lord aid your servant John Beriotes.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- Collection C. Orghidan, no. 288: Laurent, coll. Orghidan, 1952, 288: V. Laurent lit de manière erronée la fonction de duc à la place de la suite du prénom après Ι.
Collection Dumbarton Oaks, BZS.1955.1.3388: DO Seals, Online Catalogue, BZS.1955.1.3388. - Further references
- La lecture du sceau Orghidan a été corrigée dans Seibt, 2003, p. 199; le sceau Zacos BnF ainsi que le parallèle Orghidan sont mentionnés dans BBÖ, 2, p. 39 et n. 68.