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Epiphanios metropolitan of Traïanoupolis (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin raising her hands before her. No legible sigla; traces of circular inscription along the circumference. Border of dots.

δλ,

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΕΠΙΦΑ
ΝΙΜ̅Ρ̅Ο̅
ΠΟΛ,.ΡΑΙ
ΑΝΠΟ
ΛΕΣ

Ἐπιφανίῳ μητροπολίτῃ Τραϊανουπόλεως

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin raising her hands before her. No legible sigla; traces of circular inscription along the circumference. Border of dots.

δλ,

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΕΠΙΦΑ
ΝΙΜ̅Ρ̅Ο̅
ΠΟΛ,.ΡΑΙ
ΑΝΠΟ
ΛΕΣ

Ἐπιφανίῳ μητροπολίτῃ Τραϊανουπόλεως

Accession number BZS.1958.106.157
Diameter 28.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 61.1.
Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 693.

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἐπιφανίῳ μητροπολίτῃ Τραϊανουπόλεως.

Theotokos, help your servant Epiphanios metropolitan of Traianoupolis.

Commentary

Laurent mistakenly read the metropolitan's name as Προκοπίῳ.

The metropolis (also seat of a strategos in the eleventh century; see Maksimović and Popović, "Les sceaux byzantins de la région danubienne en Serbie," 233), situated on the Via Egnatia, west of the Maritza River, near the village Loutra of the Alexandroupolis region. It existed from the earliest times until the abandonment of the city in the fourteenth century; the see was then transferred to Mosynoupolis. See Laurent, Corpus V/1, 523-23; Asdracha, Rhodopes, 118-20; REB 31 (1973) 290-91; BNJ 23 (1979) 13-21. Inscriptions: Ἀρχ. Δελτ. 35 (1980) (pub. 1986) 256-61.

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)
  • Les sceaux byzantins de la région danubienne en Serbie (Open in Zotero)
  • La région des Rhodopes aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles: étude de géographie historique (Open in Zotero)