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Niketas proedros (=bishop) of Makre (twelfth century)

 
 

Obverse

The Virgin seated on a high-backed throne, holding medallion of Christ before her. Sigla: ΜΡ̅Θ̅Υ : Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, cross above. Border of dots.

ΣΦΡΑΓΙ.
ΝΙΚΗΤΑΤ
ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΥ
ΤΗΣΜΑ
ΚΡΗΣ

Σφραγὶς Νικήτα τοῦ προέδρου τῆς Μάκρης

Obverse

The Virgin seated on a high-backed throne, holding medallion of Christ before her. Sigla: ΜΡ̅Θ̅Υ : Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, cross above. Border of dots.

ΣΦΡΑΓΙ.
ΝΙΚΗΤΑΤ
ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΥ
ΤΗΣΜΑ
ΚΡΗΣ

Σφραγὶς Νικήτα τοῦ προέδρου τῆς Μάκρης

Accession number BZS.1955.1.5022
Diameter 21.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 56.2c.
Laurent, Corpus V/3, no. 1772 (the seal is incorrectly attributed to a metropolitan of Rhodes); and Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden II, no. 2679.

Translation

Σφραγὶς Νικήτα τοῦ προέδρου τῆς Μάκρης.

Seal of Niketas, bishop of Makre.

Commentary

See the commentary to BZS 1955.1.5021.

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)
  • Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Open in Zotero)
  • La région des Rhodopes aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles: étude de géographie historique (Open in Zotero)
  • Corpus der byzantinischen Siegel mit metrischen Legenden, Vol. 2, Siegellegenden von Ny bis inklusive Sphragis (Open in Zotero)