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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
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- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- 6,3
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 12-6
- Axis (clock)
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- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
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- Countermark
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- Condition
- Very slightly indented at the canal openings; partially crushed and oxidised on both sides.
Dating
- Date
- 10th C. middle
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Michael
Milieu: Civil
Gender: Male - Place of origin
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- Modern location
- Izmir (Turkey)
- Institution and repository
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- Collection and inventory
- Yavuz Tatış collection 2777
- Acquisition
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- Previous locations
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- Modern observations
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Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with circular legend and legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Matrix
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- Iconography
- Bust of a saint with a pointy beard, hair gathered, wearing a mantle with a wide neckline decorated with three rhombuses of pearls on the shoulders, which is not a lôros despite the richness of the decoration, nor quite the episcopal pelonion; the hands are not visible, the left probably holding the Holy Book on a plate decorated with large pearls
- Decoration
- Circle of dots
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
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- Decoration
- Circle of dots; legend preceded by a cross; at the top of it and perhaps at the base, a row of three pearls
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
Εὐσέβιος vel Εὐγένιος / + Μιχαὴλ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν οἰκειακῶν.
Eusebios or Eugenios. Michael, imperial protospatharios and epi ton oikeiakon.
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 250
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references