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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-EtvYva
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
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- Weight (g)
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- Channel orientation (clock)
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- Axis (clock)
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- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
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- Condition
- Indented at channel openings; worn on the edge.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., end
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Prosopography, Related seal
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- Constantine Oumpertopoulos(PBW: Konstantinos 122)
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 142
- 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
- Iconography with legend in columns.
- Field dimensions (mm)
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- Matrix
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- Iconography
- The Archangel Michael standing, in military garb, holding a scepter in his right hand and a cruciger globe in his left; on either side of the effigy, inscription in columns.
- Decoration
- Circle of thick dots.
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 6 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 beginning of the legend pn a same line.
- Epigraphy
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Images
- Digital image of the obverse.
- Digital image of the reverse.
Edition
Legend and translation
Μιχαήλ. / + Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Κωνσταντίνῳ σεβαστῷ καὶ δουκὶ τῷ Οὐμπερτοπώλῳ.
Michael. Lord aid your servant Constantine Oumpertopoulos, sebastos and doux.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- Collection Zacos BnF, no. 143.
- Further references
- No further references