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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
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- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Weight (g)
- 5,61
- 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
- Notched at the channel openings; blank trimmed around the edge; partially crushed on both sides; rather clumsy engraving
Dating
- Date
- 10th C. (second half)
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Central administration
- Issuer
- John
Milieu: Civil
Gender: Eunuch - Place of origin
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- Modern location
- Izmir (Turkey)
- Institution and repository
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- Collection and inventory
- Yavuz Tatış collection 2302
- 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. 19
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of Saint Nicholas, front view, in his customary episcopal garb. In the field, on either side of the nimbus of pearls, a columnar epigraph, preserved on the left only
- Decoration
- Circle of grenetis
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 19
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Legend surmounted and followed by a lozenge of pearls
- Decoration
- ―
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / Ἰωάννῃ σπαθαροκουβικουλαρίῳ.
Lord help your servant John, spatharocubicularius.
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 184
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references