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Constantine archbishop of Parion (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. Michael holding the globus. Part of an inscription visible: Μ: [ὁ ἀρχάγγελος] Μ(ι)χ(αήλ). Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of three lines, a decoration below. Border of dots.

Κ̅.
ΡΕΠ...
ΠΑΡ..


Κω[ν(σταντῖνος)] ἀρχ(ι)επ[ισκ(οπος)] Παρ[ίου]

Obverse

Bust of St. Michael holding the globus. Part of an inscription visible: Μ: [ὁ ἀρχάγγελος] Μ(ι)χ(αήλ). Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of three lines, a decoration below. Border of dots.

Κ̅.
ΡΕΠ...
ΠΑΡ..


Κω[ν(σταντῖνος)] ἀρχ(ι)επ[ισκ(οπος)] Παρ[ίου]

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.3273
Diameter 26.0 mm; field: 20.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 64.1.
Laurent, Corpus, V/1, no. 826.

Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Κωνσταντῖνος ἀρχιεπισκοπος Παρίου.

Constantine, archbishop of Parion.

Commentary

Parion (modern Kemer on the Hellespont) was initially a suffragan bishopric of Kyzikos represented at the Council of Nicaea in 325). By 640 it was an archbishopric and appears as such in all notitiae until the thirteenth century. Before 1261 it was united with the metropolis of Pegai. See Laurent, Corpus V/1, 641.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 3: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)