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Theodosios monk and bishop of Andrapa (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin with a medallion of Christ. Sigla: ..-θ̅υ : [Μ(ήτη)ρ] Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines, a decoration above. Border of dots.

– –
θκ̅εR,θ,
τσδ,
.ε.δοσα̅χ
.επ,σκοπ,
.νδρα
π

Θ(εοτό)κε β(οή)θ(ει) τῷ σῷ δού(λῳ) [Θ]ε[ο]δοσ(ίῳ) (μον)αχ(ῷ) [(καὶ)] ἐπ(ι)σκόπ(ῳ) [Ἀ]νδράπω(ν)

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin with a medallion of Christ. Sigla: ..-θ̅υ : [Μ(ήτη)ρ] Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines, a decoration above. Border of dots.

– –
θκ̅εR,θ,
τσδ,
.ε.δοσα̅χ
.επ,σκοπ,
.νδρα
π

Θ(εοτό)κε β(οή)θ(ει) τῷ σῷ δού(λῳ) [Θ]ε[ο]δοσ(ίῳ) (μον)αχ(ῷ) [(καὶ)] ἐπ(ι)σκόπ(ῳ) [Ἀ]νδράπω(ν)

Accession number BZS.1955.1.4685
Diameter 25.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 25.3.

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Θεοδοσίῳ μοναχῷ καὶ ἐπισκόπῳ Ἀνδράπων.

Mother of God, help your servant Theodosios, monk and bishop of Andrapa.

Commentary

Andrapa (also known as Neapolis and Neoklaudioupolis), the modern Vezirköprü, was an episcopal see as early as the Vth century. It is mentioned as a bishopric of Helenopontos under the metropolitan of Amaseia in the Notitiae episcopatuum from the sixth to the thirteenth century (Darrouzès, Notitiae, 209, 357). See Laurent, Corpus V/1, 311 (list of bishops in Fedalto, HEO I, 79-80; Galatien und Lykaonien, 126; Brandes, 123; Zgusta, 75-76; Mikra Asia them., 149.

Bibliography

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  • Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
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  • Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen (Open in Zotero)
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