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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
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- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- 6,31
- 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
- Barely indented at the canal openings; trimmed all around the flank; partially crushed on the reverse side.
Dating
- Date
- 10th/11th C.
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Dignitaries
- Issuer
- Michael
Milieu: Civil
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 71
- 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. 22
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Bust of Archangel Michael wearing a cross-shaped rosette embellished with pearls; the archangel holds a curious sceptre in his right hand and a non-cruciferous globe in the other; the wings fall stiffly behind the shoulders; the engraving is schematic
- Decoration
- Border of dots heavily trimmed
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 5 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- ―
- Decoration
- Border of dots heavily trimmed; legend preceded by a cross
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
Μηχαὴλ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ ἐπὶ τὼν ὑκηακῳν.
Michael, imperial protospatharios and epi ton oikeiakon.
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 249
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references