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Artifact

Type: Seal
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Physical description

Medium: Original impression
Material: Lead
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Dimensions (mm): Diam. 22
Weight (g): 9,62
Channel orientation (clock): 9-3
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Condition: Notched at the channel openings; worned at the base on the right; partially crushed on the reverse; struck at 180°.

Dating

Date: 12th C.
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Dating criteria: Epigraphy
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History

Category: Secular Church
Issuer: N.
Milieu: Secular Church
Gender: Male
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Modern location: Izmir (Turkey)
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Collection and inventory: Yavuz Tatış collection 2105
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Obverse

Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Iconography with legend in columns
Field dimensions (mm): Diam. 22
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Iconography: Saint Michael, front view, standing on a subpedion, wings spread wide, wearing a short military tunic under the chlamydia; in his right hand, the archangel holds a long labarum or sceptre resting on the ground, and in the other, a cruciger globe.
Decoration: Circle of pearls
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Reverse

Language(s): Greek
Layout of field: Linear legend of 5 lines
Field dimensions (mm): Diam. 22
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Iconography: Legend surmounted by a cross between dashes
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Edition

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Ἀ(ρ)χ(άγγελος) [Μι(χαήλ)]

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1Χωνῶν
2βλέπων
3σφράγ(ισ)μα
4[φεύγ(ει)] πᾶς
5δόλος

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1
2ΧΝΝ
3ΛΕΠΝ
4ΣΦΡΑΓΜΑ
5....ΠΑΣ
6Δ̣ΟΛΟΣ

Legend and translation

Ἀρχάγγελλος Μιχαήλ. / Χωνῶν βλέπων σφράγισμα φεύγει πᾶς δόλος.

Archangel Michael. All deceit disappears, seeing the sealing of Chonai.

References

Edition(s): Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 289
Parallel(s): No parallels known
Further references: No further references