SigiDoc: Seal of John Komnenos, kouropalates

Medium: Original impression
Material: Lead
Shape: ―
Dimensions (mm): Diam. 29
Weight (g): 15,13
Channel orientation (clock): 12-6
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Overstrike orientation (clock): ―
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Countermark: ―
Condition: Double strike, visible on the reverse right: barely indented at the channel holes; off-centre strike.

Category: Dignitaries
Issuer: John Komnenos(PBW: PBW Ioannes 63)
Milieu: Civil
Gender: Male
Place of origin: ―
Find place: Magnesia ad Sipylum (Manisa)
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Modern location: Izmir (Turkey)
Institution and repository: ―
Collection and inventory: Yavuz Tatış collection 2627
Acquisition: ―
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Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Iconographie avec légende en colonnes
Field dimensions (mm): Diam. 29
Matrix: ―
Iconography: Bust of saint George; the chlamys, pulled back behind the right shoulder, reveals the breastplate, made of small metal scales adorned with pearls; the shield edged with large pearls protects the left forearm, and the spear is held in both hands, diagonally in front of the chest, the point turned in front of the left shoulder, an unusual attitude in the iconography of military saints who hold the spear vertically, or passing in front of the right shoulder
Decoration: Circle of pearls
Epigraphy: ―