Leo dioiketes of Teios (tenth century)
Obverse
Patriarchal cross on four steps. Circular inscription within concentric circles of dots:
κεRοηθητσδ
Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δ(ούλῳ)
Obverse
Patriarchal cross on four steps. Circular inscription within concentric circles of dots:
κεRοηθητσδ
Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δ(ούλῳ)
Reverse
Inscription of four lines, decorations above and below. Border of dots.
λεν
τειδηυκ
ητειτει
ουμη,
Λέωντει δηυκητεῖ Τείου ἀμή(ν)
Accession number | BZS.1951.31.5.591 |
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Diameter | 22.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 4, no. 10.1a. |
Translation
Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Λέωντει δηυκητεῖ Τείου, ἀμήν.
Lord, help your servant Leo, dioiketes of Teios, Amen.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 4: The East (Open in Zotero)
- Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Open in Zotero)
- Paphlagonien und Honorias (Open in Zotero)
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
- Sceaux byzantins inédits (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
This seal, BZS.1951.31.5.664, and BZS.1951.31.5.1290 have the same alignment of letters and seem to come from the same boulloterion. There is a strong probability that the present specimen is the one that Laurent saw in Istanbul and published in "Sceaux byzantins inédits," EO 32 (1933) 34-35.
The town and bishopric of Tios were situated at Hissar Önü (Bithynia), at 60 km to the east of Eregli along the Black Sea coast. This was a financial center as it had its own dioiketes and presumably a naval base, as seems to attest the office of droungarios. Tios is attested as a suffragan bishopric of Klaudioupolis from the VIIIth to the XIIIth century (Darrouzès, Notitiae, n. 3, l. 335 and no. 13, l. 238). See Paphlagonien, 276-278; Laurent, Corpus V/1, 352. List of bishops in Fedalto, HEO I, 93.