Constantine metropolitan of Myra and synkellos (eleventh century)
Obverse
Bust of St. Nicholas blessing and holding the book. On either side, inscription: |ΝΙ|Κ,Λ|Α|Ο,: ὁ ἅγιος Νικόλαος. Border of dots.
Obverse
Bust of St. Nicholas blessing and holding the book. On either side, inscription: |ΝΙ|Κ,Λ|Α|Ο,: ὁ ἅγιος Νικόλαος. Border of dots.
Reverse
Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.
Κ̅Ε̅,Θ,
Κ̅̅Ν̅Μ̅Ρ̅Ο̅
ΠΟΜΥΡΟΝ
ΣΥΚΕΛ
Λ
Κύριε βοήθει Κωνσταντίνῳ μητροπολίτῃ Μύρον καὶ συγκέλλῳ
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.364 |
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Diameter | 16.0 mm; field: 13.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 72.2. |
Translation
Κύριε βοήθει Κωνσταντίνῳ μητροπολίτῃ Μύρον καὶ συγκέλλῳ.
Lord, help Constantine metropolitan of Myra and synkellos.
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. 2 (Open in Zotero)
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
- Sur les variations numériques des évêchés byzantins (Open in Zotero)
- Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen (Open in Zotero)
- Die Städte Kleinasiens im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
Note the rare ligature ΥΓ.
Myra (ruins close to Demre) was famous for the relics of St. Nicholas; it was also a major metropolis mentioned in all notitiae and whose metropolitans attended the major councils and the patriarchal synod from the 4th century onward. See Laurent, Corpus V/1, 370; Zacos, Seals II, no. 380; Fedalto, 225-26; J. Darrouzès, in REB 44 (1986) 17-19; ODB II, 1428; Zgusta, 410-11; Brandes, Städte, 96-98.