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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- ―
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 36
- Weight (g)
- 41,68
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 12-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- ―
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Very heavy and partially deformed blank; slightly worn on the obverse.
Dating
- Date
- ―
- Internal date
- Indiction 14, corresponding to the year 730-731 CE
- Dating criteria
- Internal date
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- Cyzicus (near Bandırma (Panormos, south coast of the Marmara))
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Izmir (Turkey)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Yavuz Tatış collection 2563
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 36
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Two imperial figures staning, facing each other, separated by a simple cross, lightly pattéed, at the end of a long handle extending beyond the heads and resting on a globe; the emperors, dressed in divitision and chlamys, each wear a closed crown surmounted by a cross and adorned with dependilia; according to very similar pieces, the bearded sovereign on the left is Leo III, the beardless one on the right is Constantine V; each emperor holds the base of the cross in his hand, above the globe, while Constantine's hand is placed above that of his father
- Decoration
- Circle of pearls
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 6 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 36
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of pearls
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
Τῶν βασιλικῶν κομμερκίων Ἀσίας καὶ Καρίας· ἰνδικτιῶνος ΙΔ.
(Seal of) Imperial kommerkia of Asia and Caria. Indiction 4.
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 118
- Parallel(s)
- ,
- Further references
- No further references