N. bishop of Germia (eleventh century)
Obverse
Bust of St. Michael holding a scepter in his right hand and a globus in his left hand. Inscription in column at right: Χ|Μ : [Ἀ(ρ)]χ[ά(γγελος)] Μ(ι)χ(αήλ). Border of dots.
Obverse
Bust of St. Michael holding a scepter in his right hand and a globus in his left hand. Inscription in column at right: Χ|Μ : [Ἀ(ρ)]χ[ά(γγελος)] Μ(ι)χ(αήλ). Border of dots.
Reverse
Inscription of five lines, a decoration below. Border of dots.
εγ.
σφραγι,
πεφυκα
.υτγερ
μιν
Ἐγ[ὼ] σφραγὶς πέφυκα [θ]ύτου Γερμίων.
Accession number | BZS.1947.2.2105 |
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Diameter | 20.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 4, no. 5.1.
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Translation
Ἐγὼ σφραγὶς πέφυκα θύτου Γερμίων.
Ι am the seal of the bishop of Germia.
Bibliography
- Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Open in Zotero)
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- Galatien und Lykaonien (Open in Zotero)
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 4: The East (Open in Zotero)
- Corpus der byzantinischen Siegel mit metrischen Legenden, Vol. 1, Siegellegenden von Alpha bis inclusive My (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
Twelve-syllable verse.
Germia, at 26 km from Sivrihisar, is now called Gümüskonak, and formerly Yörme; it was a suffragan bishopric of Pessinous in Galatia II before being elevated to autocephalous archbishopric after 640, and then to metropolis without suffragans in the eleventh century. The see disappears after the beginning of the fourteenth century. It possessed a famous shrine of St Michael, who is regularly represented on the seals of its prelates. See ODB II, 847-848; Laurent, Corpus V/1, 638; Belke-Restle, Galatien und Lykaonien, 166-168, 247. List of prelates in Fedalto, HEO I, 65.