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John poimen (= metropolitan) of Myra (twelfth/thirteenth century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. Nicholas blessing and holding the book. On either side the inscription: |ΝΙ|ΚΟΛΑ|ΟΣ: ὁ ἅγιος Νικόλαος. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of four lines, a cross above. Border of dots.


ΙΑΝΝ
ΣΦΡΑΣΜΑ
ΠΟΙΜΕΝΟΣ
ΜΥΡΝ

Ἰωάννου σφράγισμα ποιμένος Μύρων

Obverse

Bust of St. Nicholas blessing and holding the book. On either side the inscription: |ΝΙ|ΚΟΛΑ|ΟΣ: ὁ ἅγιος Νικόλαος. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of four lines, a cross above. Border of dots.


ΙΑΝΝ
ΣΦΡΑΣΜΑ
ΠΟΙΜΕΝΟΣ
ΜΥΡΝ

Ἰωάννου σφράγισμα ποιμένος Μύρων

Accession number BZS.1947.2.2050
Diameter 24.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 72.4; Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 509. See also Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden I, no. 1046.

Translation

Ἰωάννου σφράγισμα ποιμένος Μύρων.

Seal of John, metropolitan of Myra.

Commentary

Dodecasyllabic.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 2: South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (Open in Zotero)
  • Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
  • Sur les variations numériques des évêchés byzantins (Open in Zotero)
  • Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen (Open in Zotero)
  • Die Städte Kleinasiens im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert (Open in Zotero)
  • Corpus der byzantinischen Siegel mit metrischen Legenden, Vol. 1, Siegellegenden von Alpha bis inclusive My (Open in Zotero)