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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
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- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 43
- Weight (g)
- 47,5
- 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
- Slightly indented at the canal openings; slightly worn on both sides
Dating
- Date
- 980-992
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Prosopography, Titulature
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Secular Church
- Issuer
- Nikolaos Chrysoberges(PmbZ: PMBZ Nikolaos 26019)
Milieu: Secular Church
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 899
- 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 legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 40
- Matrix
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- Iconography
- Full-length Virgin Hodegetria, front view, head turned slightly towards the Child on her left arm. The Theotokos, standing on a rectangular support, is advancing towards the Child with her right hand, brought back in front of her, half open in a gesture of adoration. Christ, with a cruciform nimbus adorned with a pearl on each arm, holds a scroll in his left hand and blesses with 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. 40
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Legend surmounted and followed by a cross of pearls accosted by dashes
- Decoration
- ―
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. + Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. / Νικολάῳ ἀρχιεπισκόπῳ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως Νέας Ῥώμης.
Mother of God. Mother of God help your servant Nikolaos, archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 278-279
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references