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John Karianites (twelfth century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of the Mother of God. Sigla: ̅ΘΥ̅: Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Linear border.

Reverse

Inscription in four lines, bottom line missing. Linear border.


ΘΚΕΟ
ΗΘΕΙΙ̅
ΤΟΚΑΡΗ
..... 

Θεοτόκε βοήθει Ἰωάννῃ το Καρηανίτῃ

Obverse

Bust of the Mother of God. Sigla: ̅ΘΥ̅: Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Linear border.

Reverse

Inscription in four lines, bottom line missing. Linear border.


ΘΚΕΟ
ΗΘΕΙΙ̅
ΤΟΚΑΡΗ
..... 

Θεοτόκε βοήθει Ἰωάννῃ το Καρηανίτῃ

Accession number BZS.1958.106.3521
Diameter 19.0 mm

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει Ἰωάννῃ το Καρηανίτῃ.

Mother of God, help John Karianites.

Commentary

The reading of the name is based on this seal's better preserved parallel, BZS.1958.106.1659, listed below. Stavrakos (Die byzantinischen Bleisiegel, p. 194) and Jordanov (Corpus II, p. 191) list other seals bearing the name John Karianites, however, it is difficult to determine whether these groups belonged to the same person.

Bibliography

  • Die byzantinischen Bleisiegel mit Familiennamen aus der Sammlung des Numismatischen Museums Athen (Open in Zotero)
  • Corpus of Byzantine Seals from Bulgaria (Open in Zotero)