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Artifact
- Type
- Seal
- Matrix
- SigiDoc ID: m-XfsrWQ - PBW ID: 5172
Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Weight (g)
- ―
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 12-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Poor condition, heavily correoed: the obverse is almost faded, although the main features of the iconography are still visible; the reverse is also damaged, particularly in the upper and lower parts, including the legend, but without compromising its readability; the blank is fractured along the channel, with a very deep indentation running almost to the middle.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., end
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Prosopography, Parallel
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- Pothos Alyates(PBW: Pothos 20118)
Milieu: Military
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Paris (France)
- Institution and repository
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques
- Collection and inventory
- Zacos BnF 44
- Acquisition
-
Gift of Janet Zacos, 1998
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- According to the parallel specimen, St George standing, with curly hair, in military gard, holding a spear with his right hand and a decorated shield touching the ground with the left. Inscription in columns on either sides of the image.
- Decoration
- Circle of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 6 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Images
- Digital image of the obverse.
- Digital image of the reverse.
Edition
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Γεώργιος. / + Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ποθῷ πρωτοπροέδρῳ καὶ κατεπάνῳ τῷ Ἀλυάτῃ.
St George. Lord aid your servant Pothos Alyates, protoproedros and katepano.
References
- Edition(s)
- Unpublished
- Parallel(s)
- Collection Zacos BnF, no. 43.
- Further references
- No further references