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Euthymios bishop of Sagalassos (tenth century)

 
 

Obverse

Patriarchal cross on steps with fleurons arising from the base up to the first crossbar. Along a border of dots, part of a circular inscription remains:

σδλ

[Κ(ύρι)ε β(οή)θ(ει) τ]ῷ σῷ δούλ(ῳ)

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

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Θ̅ΥΕΠΙΣ
ΟΠΟΣΑ.
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Εὐθ[υ]μίο ἐλέ[ῳ] Θ(εο)ῦ ἐπισ[κ]όπου Σα[γαλα]σοῦ

Obverse

Patriarchal cross on steps with fleurons arising from the base up to the first crossbar. Along a border of dots, part of a circular inscription remains:

σδλ

[Κ(ύρι)ε β(οή)θ(ει) τ]ῷ σῷ δούλ(ῳ)

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

+ΕΥΘ
ΜΙΟΕΛΕ
Θ̅ΥΕΠΙΣ
ΟΠΟΣΑ.
...Σ

Εὐθ[υ]μίο ἐλέ[ῳ] Θ(εο)ῦ ἐπισ[κ]όπου Σα[γαλα]σοῦ

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.1220
Diameter 16.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 97.1.

Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Εὐθυμίο ἐλέῳ Θεοῦ ἐπισκόπου Σαγαλασοῦ.

Lord, help your servant Euthymios, by the mercy of God bishop of Sagalassos.

Commentary

Sagalassos or Agalassos (near modern Aglasun) was a suffragan bishopric of Antioch of Pisidia and appears as such in all notitiae. Its bishops are attested in documentary sources from 381 onward. It was situated on the frontier between Anatolikon and Kibyrraiotai (De Them., XIV, 37) on the side of the latter, but we classify it together with its metropolis. See Laurent, Corpus V/2, 437; Zgusta, 523; Phrygien und Pisidien, 368-69.

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