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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- 5,91
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Small indentations at the channel openings; partially obliterated on both faces.
Dating
- Date
- 11th C., middle.
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- Gabriel
Milieu: Military
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- Western Asia Minor (West Turkey)
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Izmir (Turkey)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Yavuz Tatış collection 3052
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns on both sides of the image.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of a beardless archangel with curly hair held back by ribbons, wearing a chlamydia adorned with pearls, holding in his right hand a spear or a sceptre. If the reading Gabriel of the epigraph in columns accompanying the depiction is correct, the representation of this archangel on a seal is exceptional. J. Cotsonis found only two examples in his extensive iconographic database of seals [1].
- Decoration
- Circle of dots.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Circle of dots; last line of the legend flanked by dashes.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
Γαβριἠλ. / + Θεοτόκε βοήθει Γαβριήλ δομεστίκῳ τȏν ...
Gabriel. Mother of God help Gabriel, domestikos ...
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 2.56.
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references