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Sergios bishop of Samos (?) (tenth/eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. John the Baptist holding a staff cross. On either side the inscription: |Ι̅|ΟΠ|Ρ: ὁ ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Πρόδρομος. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five line. Border of dots.

ΚΕΟ
ΗΘ,ΤΣ
Δ,ΣΕΡΓΙΟ
ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠ,
.ΑΜ

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Σεργίο ἐπισκόπ Σάμου (?)

Obverse

Bust of St. John the Baptist holding a staff cross. On either side the inscription: |Ι̅|ΟΠ|Ρ: ὁ ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὁ Πρόδρομος. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five line. Border of dots.

ΚΕΟ
ΗΘ,ΤΣ
Δ,ΣΕΡΓΙΟ
ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠ,
.ΑΜ

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Σεργίο ἐπισκόπ Σάμου (?)

Accession number BZS.1955.1.4671
Diameter 23.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 44.16.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Σεργίο ἐπισκόπῳ Σάμου (?).

Lord, help your servant Sergios bishop of Samos (?).

Commentary

Alternatively the see could be read Λάμου (suffragan bishopric of Seleukeia in Pamphylia), but we think that the missing letter at the beginning of line 5 has a rounded left side and could be a Σ rather than a Λ. But this is not certain.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 2: South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor (Open in Zotero)
  • Samos in frühchristlicher und byzantinischer Zeit (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (Open in Zotero)
  • Βυζαντιακὰ μολυβδόβουλλα τοῦ ἐν ἈΘήναις Ἐθνικοῦ Νομισματικοῦ Μουσείου (Open in Zotero)
  • De Thematibus (Open in Zotero)
  • Monumenta Latrensia Hagiographica (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (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)
  • Les îles de l’empire byzantin: VIIIe-XIIe siècles (Open in Zotero)