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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- ―
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 33
- Weight (g)
- 29,67
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 12-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- ―
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Slightly indented at the channel openings; traces of crushing on the reverse; very fine engraving.
Dating
- Date
- 8th C. first half
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Spandetos
Milieu: Civil
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- Magnesia ad Sipylum (Manisa)
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Izmir (Turkey)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Yavuz Tatış collection 2634
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Cruciform monogram
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 33
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of stylised foliage
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 33
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of stylised foliage; legend surmounted and followed by a cross patté, flanked by florets
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ δούλῳ σου / + Σπανδέτῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ +.
Mother of God help your servant Spandetos, imperial spatharios.
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 257
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references