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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
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- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 27
- Weight (g)
- 13,45
- Channel orientation (clock)
- 12-6
- Axis (clock)
- ―
- Overstrike orientation (clock)
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- Execution
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- Countermark
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- Condition
- Clearly indented at the canal openings and around the perimeter; slightly worn on the right-hand side
Dating
- Date
- 11th C. (second half)
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Secular Church
- Issuer
- Niketas
Milieu: Secular Church
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 1770
- 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 legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 27
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Saint John Prodromos, half-body, full face, with a long beard and shaggy hair, his emaciated body clad in his mantle revealing his right shoulder; he holds a long processional cross in his left hand, his right raised in the gesture of an address.
- Decoration
- Circle of grenetis
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Linear legend of 4 lines
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 27
- Matrix
- ―
- Iconography
- Legend surmounted and followed by a pearl accosted by dashes
- Decoration
- ―
- Epigraphy
- ―
Edition
Legend and translation
Ὁ ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Πρόδρομος. / + Νικήτᾳ ἐλέǫ Θεοῦ μητροπολίτῃ Κρήτης.
Saint John Prodomos. Niketas, by the grace of God, metropolitan of Crete.
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 290
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references