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Agapios bishop of Kaisaropolis (eleventh/twelfth century)

 
 

Obverse

Scene with two figures, likely the Annunciation with the angel Gabriel on the left. Indistinct traces of an inscription. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.

..ΓΑΠΙ
...ΙΣΚ
ΠΚΕΣΑΡ
ΟΠΛΕ

γαπίῳ ἐπισκόπῳ Κεσαροπώλεως

Obverse

Scene with two figures, likely the Annunciation with the angel Gabriel on the left. Indistinct traces of an inscription. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.

..ΓΑΠΙ
...ΙΣΚ
ΠΚΕΣΑΡ
ΟΠΛΕ

γαπίῳ ἐπισκόπῳ Κεσαροπώλεως

Accession number BZS.1958.106.146
Diameter 26.0 mm; field: 19.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 41.1.
Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 716.

Translation

Ἀγαπίῳ ἐπισκόπῳ Κεσαροπώλεως.

Agapios bishop of Kaisaropolis.

Commentary

According to Lemerle (Philippes, 266), the town (founded in the ninth century) and the bishopric (initially suffragan to Philippoi, then to Serres) is to be sought in the district of Zavalta. The bishopric was in existence by the time of the Photian synod, 879/80. Cf. Laurent, Corpus V/1, 542-43 and Theocharides, Katepanikia, 90.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 1: Italy, North of the Balkans, North of the Black Sea (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
  • Philippes et la Macédoine orientale à l’époque chrétienne et byzantine; recherches d’histoire et d’archéologie (Open in Zotero)
  • Τὰ κατεπανίκια τῆς Μακεδονίας: Συμβολή εις την διοικητικήν ιστορίαν και γεωγραφίαν της Μακεδονίας κατά τους μετά την Φραγκοκρατίαν Χρόνους (Open in Zotero)