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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
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- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 27
- Weight (g)
- 13,91
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 12-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
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- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Large blank, very clearly indented at the channel openings; oxidation marks, especially on the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- 10th C.
- 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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- Find place
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- Find date
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- Find circumstances
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- Modern location
- Izmir (Turkey)
- Institution and repository
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- Collection and inventory
- Yavuz Tatış collection 2824
- 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
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 27
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of Archangel Michael, beardless, with thick hair in headbands tied with ribbons flowing behind the neck ; a crossed lôros, made up of squares adorned with large pearls, covers the drooping shoulders, behind which the open wings fall back instead of spreading out on either side along the border; the archangel appears to be holding a spear in his left hand, with a sharp point, and a trident-tipped sceptre in the other
- Decoration
- Circle of pearls
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 27
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Border containing eight spaced pearls, inserted between two circles of dots
- Decoration
- Legend preceded by a cross
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
Ἀρχάγγελε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Μιχαὴλ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ ἐπὴ τῶν ὑκειακῶν.
Archangel help your servant Michael, imperial protospatharios and epi ton oikeiakon.
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 250-251
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references