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Symeon Ouranos, judge (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. Nicholas offering a blessing and holding the book. Along the circumference, a circular invocation. Border of dots.

αγιενικο,οηθει

Ἅγιε Νικόλαε βοήθει

Reverse

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

  
κριτη
συμεν
ουραν
τσλα
τρη

κριτῇ Συμεὼν Οὐρανῷ τῷ σῷ λάτρῃ

Obverse

Bust of St. Nicholas offering a blessing and holding the book. Along the circumference, a circular invocation. Border of dots.

αγιενικο,οηθει

Ἅγιε Νικόλαε βοήθει

Reverse

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

  
κριτη
συμεν
ουραν
τσλα
τρη

κριτῇ Συμεὼν Οὐρανῷ τῷ σῷ λάτρῃ

Accession number BZS.1955.1.3897
Diameter 26.0 mm; field: 25.0 mm

Translation

Ἅγιε Νικόλαε βοήθει κριτῇ Συμεὡν Οὐρανῷ τῷ σῷ λάτρῃ.

St. Nicholas, help the judge Symeon Ouranos, your servant.

Commentary

The inscription on the reverse forms a dodecasyllabic verse that completes the (non-metrical) invocation on the obverse.