Sisinnios metropolitan of Perge (seventh/eighth century)
Obverse
Inscription of four lines, a decoration above. Wreath border.
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σισιν
ιουμη
τροπολ
ιτ.υ
Σισινίου μητροπολίτου
Obverse
Inscription of four lines, a decoration above. Wreath border.
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σισιν
ιουμη
τροπολ
ιτ.υ
Σισινίου μητροπολίτου
Reverse
Inscription of two lines between floral decorations. Wreath border.
περγ
ησ
Πέργης
Accession number | BZS.1955.1.4832 |
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Diameter | 30.0 mm; field: 18.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 75.1. |
Translation
Σισινίου μητροπολίτου Πέργης.
(Seal of) Sisinnios metropolitan of Perge.
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)
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
- Oeuvres complètes de Georges Scholarios (Open in Zotero)
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
- Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen (Open in Zotero)
- The Metropolitan City of Syllion and its Churches (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
Perge, the ecclesiastical metropolis of Pamphylia (ruins 15 km to the northeast of Attaleia), was represented at the Council of Ankyra in 314. It appears in all the notitiae. It seems that sometime around 800, the metropolitan moved (with the population) to the nearby administrative center of Syllaion (ruins between Yanköy and Asar Köyü, further east), so that the metropolitan became known as Πέργης ἤτοι Συλλαίου. In the 15th century we meet the (titular) metropolitan Πέργης καὶ Ἀτταλείας (L. Petit, X. Siderides, M. Jugie, Oeuvres complètes de Gennade Scholarios III [Paris, 1930], 193). See Laurent, Corpus V/1, 407; Fedalto, 246; Zgusta, 484, 568; V. Ruggieri-F. Nethercott, "The Metropolitan City of Syllion and its Churches," JÖB 36 (1986) 133-56; ODB III, 1980.