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Physical description
- Medium
- Original impression
- Material
- Lead
- Shape
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- Dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Weight (g)
- 9,51
- 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 canal orifices; blank too small and heavily trimmed at the top of the field
Dating
- Date
- 9th C. (end)
- Internal date
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- Dating criteria
- Epigraphy
- Alternative date
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History
- Category
- Secular Church
- Issuer
- N.
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 2552
- 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. 22
- Matrix
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- Iconography
- Virgin, half-body, front view, holding the Child in front of her with both hands. The Theotokos, with her angular, Photian face, is clothed in a tightly-folded mantle, revealing the bust of Christ, front-on, in a static posture, wearing not the nimbus but the cross behind her head, embellished with three pearls.
- Decoration
- Circle of pearls
- Epigraphy
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Reverse
- Language(s)
- Greek
- Layout of field
- Iconography with legend in columns
- Field dimensions (mm)
- Diam. 22
- Matrix
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- Iconography
- In the centre, Saint John the Theologian half-length, facing, blessing with his right hand and holding his Gospel book in his left hand, the plate decorated with a rhombus of pearls.
- Decoration
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- Epigraphy
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Edition
Legend and translation
Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Ὁ ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Θεολόγος. / [...] Ἐφέσου.
Mother of God. Theotokos help your servant. John the Theologian. [...] Ephesos.
References
- Edition(s)
- Cheynet, coll. Tatış, 296
- Parallel(s)
- No parallels known
- Further references
- No further references