Metropolitan of the Holy Church of Tyana (seventh century)
Obverse
Inscription of four lines. Wreath border.
+του
μητρο
πολι
τοΥ
Τοῦ μητροπολίτου
Reverse
Inscription of four lines. Wreath border.
τησ
γ⸉εκ
κλ⸉τυ
σ
τῆς ἁγίας ἐκκλησίας Τυάνης
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.462 |
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Diameter | 26.0 mm; field: 19.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 4, no. 47.1b. |
Translation
Τοῦ μητροπολίτου τῆς ἁγίας ἐκκλησίας Τυάνης.
(Seal of) the metropolitan of the Holy Church of Tyana.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 4: The East (Open in Zotero)
- Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Open in Zotero)
- Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen (Open in Zotero)
- Kappadokien (Kappadokia, Charsianon, Sebasteia und Lykandos) (Open in Zotero)
- Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Open in Zotero)
- Η Μικρά Ασία των θεμάτων. Ἐρευνες πάνω στην γεωγραφική φυσιογνωμία και προσωπογραφία των βυζαντινών θεμάτων της Μικράς Ασίας (Open in Zotero)
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
This seal and BZS.1958.106.461 come from the same boulloterion. BZS.1958.106.463 comes from a different boulloterion than these two, but it has the same inscription and dates from the same time period.