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Dominikos Manios, eparch (twelfth/thirteenth century)

 
 

Obverse

The Mother of God standing with her hands upraised in prayer. On either side, epigraphy: ̅θυ̅: Μή(τη)ρ Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

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


σφργισ
επρχου
ομινικ
νιου
  

σφραγὶς ἐπάρχου Δομινίκου Μανίου

Obverse

The Mother of God standing with her hands upraised in prayer. On either side, epigraphy: ̅θυ̅: Μή(τη)ρ Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

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


σφργισ
επρχου
ομινικ
νιου
  

σφραγὶς ἐπάρχου Δομινίκου Μανίου

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.1361
Diameter 26.0 mm
Previous Editions

Laurent, Corpus II, no. 1044; see also Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden II, no. 2430.

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

Translation

σφραγὶς ἐπάρχου Δομινίκου Μανίου.

Seal of the eparch Dominikos Manios.

Commentary

Known only from his seals, Dominikos Manios will have been a Latin who obtained the office of eparch either through long experience and assimilation in Constantinople or through connections with other Latins active in the Byzantine capital. See Wassiliou-Seibt's comments and further references, and PBW: Dominikos 20101.

Bibliography

  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
  • Corpus der byzantinischen Siegel mit metrischen Legenden, Vol. 2, Siegellegenden von Ny bis inklusive Sphragis (Open in Zotero)