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Basil metropolitan of Pompeioupolis (tenth/eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. Nicholas blessing with his right hand. Inscription in two columns: |Ν|ΙΚ|.|. : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Νικ[όλ(αος)]. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

Rασιλ
..αχιστ
.ροπο
..ομπη
..πολε
,

Bασίλ(ειος) [ἐλ]άχιστ(ος) [μ(ητ)]ροπολ(ίτης) Π]ομπη[ιου]πόλεω(ς)

Obverse

Bust of St. Nicholas blessing with his right hand. Inscription in two columns: |Ν|ΙΚ|.|. : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Νικ[όλ(αος)]. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

Rασιλ
..αχιστ
.ροπο
..ομπη
..πολε
,

Bασίλ(ειος) [ἐλ]άχιστ(ος) [μ(ητ)]ροπολ(ίτης) Π]ομπη[ιου]πόλεω(ς)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.966
Diameter 21.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 20.3. See also Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 780.

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

Translation

Bασίλειος ἐλάχιστος μητροπολίτης Πομπηιουπόλεως.

Basil, most humble metropolitan of Pompeioupolis.

Commentary

This specimen and BZS.1955.1.4804, although from different boulloteria, appear to have been struck by the same man. See the commentary to that entry.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 4: The East (Open in Zotero)
  • Les regestes des actes du patriarcat de Constantinople, Vol. 1, Les regestes de 381 à 715 (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (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)