Artifact

Type

Seal

General layout

Iconography and legend

Matrix

SigiDoc ID: 36 - PBW ID: 515

Physical description

Type of impression

Original impression

Material

Lead

Dimensions (mm)

Diam. 28

Weight (g)

―

Axis (clock)

―

Overstrike orientation (clock)

Not applicable

Channel orientation (clock)

―

Execution

Struck

Countermark

None

Lettering

―

Shape

Round

Condition

Etat de conservation correct

Dating

Date

11th C., ca. 1057-1080

Internal date

None

Dating criteria

prosopography, titulature, parallel

Alternative dating

―

History

Seal's context

Provincial administration

Issuer

Ioannes

Issuer's milieu

Military

Place of origin

―

Find place

―

Find date

―

Find circumstances

―

Modern location

Italy

Institution and repository

―

Collection and inventory

Sopracasa collection 69

Acquisition

―

Previous locations

―

Modern observations

―

Inscribed field - Obverse

Layout of field

Iconography

Field's dimensions (mm)

―

Matrix

Not applicable

Iconography

Saint Théodore debout, en costume militaire, sur un suppédion, tenant dans la main droite une lance posée à terre et s’appuyant de la gauche sur un bouclier ; label de part et d’autre de l’effigie

Decoration

Cercle de grènetis presque entièrement disparu.

Inscribed field - Reverse

Layout of field

Legend of 5 lines

Field's dimensions (mm)

―

Matrix

Not applicable

Iconography

―

Decoration

Cercle de grènetis presque entièrement disparu; croisette entre deux tirets partiellement perdus surmontant la légende

Text

Language(s)

Byzantine greek

Edition(s)

Sopracasa, Prigent, coll. Sopracasa, 2017, 12, p. 705-706

Commentary on edition(s)

None

Parallel(s)

Schlumberger, 1884, 5, p. 311 (avec commentaire iconographique erroné et fausse attribution à Joseph Tarchaniôtès); Laurent, 1962, p. 252-253 (sans image, mais d’un même boullotèrion que le sceau Schlumberger, selon Laurent, 1962, p. 252, n. 3); Cheynet, Morrisson, Seibt, coll. Seyrig, 1991, 160.

Commentary on parallel(s)

None

Edition