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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
- Round
- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 26
- Weight (g)
- 12,05
- Channel orientation (clock)
- ―
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
- ―
- Execution
- Struck
- Countermark
- ―
- Condition
- Heavily indented at the channel openings and on the blank; worn on the reverse.
Dating
- Date
- 700-725
- Internal date
- ―
- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy, Iconography, Related seal
- Alternative date
- ―
History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- Basil
Milieu: Military
Gender: Male - Place of origin
- ―
- Find place
- ―
- Find date
- ―
- Find circumstances
- ―
- Modern location
- Izmir (Turkey)
- Institution and repository
- ―
- Collection and inventory
- Yavuz Tatış collection 2693
- Acquisition
- ―
- Previous locations
- ―
- Modern observations
- ―
Obverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with an invocative cruciform monogram of a rare type, with H on the left and imbricated KE on the right, a variant of the Zacos XXXIII type.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Soaring eagle, head turned rightwards, wings open almost vertically, with monogram between them.
- Decoration
- Wreath border.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 4 lines.
- Field dimensions (mm)
- ―
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Wreath border; legend preceded by a crosslet and ending with a six-pointed star.
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει / + Βασιλείῳ ἐξκουβιτόρι.
Mother of God help Basil, exkoubitor.
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 2.65 .
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references