(John) proedros (= metropolitan) of Side and hypertimos (eleventh century)
Obverse
Bust of St. Michael holding the labarum and the globus. On either side the inscription: Μ|ΙΧ|Α : Μιχα(ήλ). Border of dots.
Obverse
Bust of St. Michael holding the labarum and the globus. On either side the inscription: Μ|ΙΧ|Α : Μιχα(ήλ). Border of dots.
Reverse
Inscription of five lines, a decoration above. Border of dots
ΣΦΡΑ
ΓΙΣΠΡΟΕ
ΔΡΤΗΣΣΙ
ΔΗΣΥΠΕΡ
ΤΙΜ
σφραγὶς προέδρου τῆς Σίδης ὑπερτίμου
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.1149 |
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Diameter | 22.0 mm; field: 19.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 78.4a. Note that Laurent (Corpus V/1, no. 408) edited two similar specimens issued by the same man, one in the Vienna Museum, the other in the Hermitage (= Pančenko, Katalog, no. 63). |
Translation
σφραγὶς προέδρου τῆς Σίδης ὑπερτίμου.
Seal of the proedros of Side (and) hypertimos.
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)
- Katalog molivdovulov (Open in Zotero)
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
- Die Städte Kleinasiens im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert (Open in Zotero)
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Commentary
Dodecasyllabic. This is the famous John of Side around 1079 (see commentary to BZS 1955.1.4845); he was the sole hypertimos and therefore did not need to spell out his name.
Side (today Selimiye, previously also called Eski Antalya, at 7 km from Manavgat) was a major late antique city, metropolis of Pamphylia first attested in 451, and appearing as such in all notitiae from the 7th century onward. The city declined after the 7th century and was seemingly abandoned in the 11th, probably in favor of Attaleia (which, from bishopric, became [1084] metropolis), but "titular" metropolitans of Side continued being appointed. See Laurent, Corpus V/1, 293-94; Fedalto, 238; Brandes, Städte, 102-3; ODB III, 1892.