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Theodosios proedros (= metropolitan) of Theodosioupolis (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin holding Christ on her left arm. Sigla: ̅-θυ : Μ(ήτη)ρ Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of three lines. Border of dots.

σαγιαεδρ
θεοδσ/θεο
δοσουπο

Σφραγὶ(ς) (προ)ἐδρ(ου) Θεοδ(ο)σ(ίου) Θεοδοσ(ι)ουπό(λεως)

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin holding Christ on her left arm. Sigla: ̅-θυ : Μ(ήτη)ρ Θ(εο)ῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of three lines. Border of dots.

σαγιαεδρ
θεοδσ/θεο
δοσουπο

Σφραγὶ(ς) (προ)ἐδρ(ου) Θεοδ(ο)σ(ίου) Θεοδοσ(ι)ουπό(λεως)

Accession number BZS.1955.1.4227
Diameter 20.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 72.1.

Translation

Σφραγὶς προἐδρου Θεοδοσίου Θεοδοσιουπόλεως.

The seal of Theodosios, proedros of Theodosioupolis.

Commentary

Very poor engraving. Theodosios should be added to the list of prelates in Fedalto, HEO.

Today Erzurum, Theodosioupolis (of Armenia) is listed as a suffragan bishopric of Caesarea of Cappadocia until the beginning of the tenth century (Darrouzès, Notitiae, 7, l. 109) but seems to have been elevated to the rank of metropolis when the town became the seat of a strategos early in the eleventh century (Listes, 355). List of prelates in Fedalto, HEO I, 421. See also Sinclair II, 187 ff.

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)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
  • Eastern Turkey: An Architectural and Archaeological Survey (Open in Zotero)