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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- ―
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 30
- Weight (g)
- 19,78
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 12-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- ―
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Small indentation at the bottom of the channel; wear on the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- 998/999-1006
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Titulature
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Provincial administration
- Issuer
- Gregorios Tarchaniotes
Milieu: Military
Gender: Male - Place of origin
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- Find place
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- Find circumstances
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- Modern location
- Izmir (Turkey)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Yavuz Tatış collection 2323
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 30
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Patriarchal cross recrossed at the lower arm, raised on three steps and adorned with florets issuing from the base to the top, wrapped under the lower arm around a six-pointed star
- Decoration
- Circle of pearls
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 7 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 30
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of pearls; legend preceded by a cross
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
+ Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Γρηγόριος βασιλικὸς πρωτοσπαθάριος καὶ κατεπάνω Ἰταλίας ὁ Τραχανιώτης.
Lord help your servant Gregory Tarchaneiotes, imperial protospatharios and katepano of Italy.
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 139-140
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references