Romanos pastor of Thessaly (= metropolitan of Thessalonica) (twelfth century)
Obverse
Bust of St. Demetrios holding spear and shield. Inscription: Ο|ΔΗ|ΜΗΤ|ΡΙ|ΟΣ: Ὁ ἅγιος Δημήτριος. Border of dots.
Obverse
Bust of St. Demetrios holding spear and shield. Inscription: Ο|ΔΗ|ΜΗΤ|ΡΙ|ΟΣ: Ὁ ἅγιος Δημήτριος. Border of dots.
Reverse
Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.
ΣΚΕΠΟΙΣ
ΡΜΑΝΟΝ
ΠΟΙΜΕΝΑΘΕ
ΤΤΑΛΙΑΣ
Σκέποις Ῥωμανὸν ποιμένα Θετταλίας
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.456 |
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Diameter | 26.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 1, no. 18.88b. |
Translation
Σκέποις Ῥωμανὸν ποιμένα Θετταλίας.
May you protect Romanos, pastor of Thessaly.
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)
- Le Synodikon de l’orthodoxie: Édition et commentaire (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
- Silk Trade and Production in Byzantium from the Sixth to the Ninth Century: The Seals of Kommerkiarioi (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantinische Bleisiegel in Berlin (West) (Open in Zotero)
- Le kommerkion d’Abydos, Thessalonique et le commerce bulgare du 9e siècle (Open in Zotero)
- Recherches sur les douanes à Byzance: L’octava, le "kommerkion" et les commerciares (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
- Les plus anciens recueils des miracles de Saint Démétrius et la pénétration des Slaves dans les Balkans (Open in Zotero)
- L’éparque de Thessalonique: les origines d'une institution administrative (VIIIe-IXe siècles) (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
The reading of this specimen has been combined with that of its counterpart from the same boulloterion: BZS 1958.106.455.