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N. metropolitan of Euchaita and protosynkellos (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. Theodore holding a martyr's cross before him. Inscription in two columns: |θε|ο-δ|ρ|ο, : Ὁ ἅ(γιος) Θεόδωρο(ς). Circular inscription, beginning at ten o'clock. Border of pellets.

μαρτυσθυτηνσον

Μάρτυς θύτην σόν

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, decorations above and below. Border of pellets.


τονευ
χαιτν
πρτοσυγ
κελλον
σκεπε

τὸν Εὐχαΐτων πρωτοσύγκελλον σκέπε.

Obverse

Bust of St. Theodore holding a martyr's cross before him. Inscription in two columns: |θε|ο-δ|ρ|ο, : Ὁ ἅ(γιος) Θεόδωρο(ς). Circular inscription, beginning at ten o'clock. Border of pellets.

μαρτυσθυτηνσον

Μάρτυς θύτην σόν

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, decorations above and below. Border of pellets.


τονευ
χαιτν
πρτοσυγ
κελλον
σκεπε

τὸν Εὐχαΐτων πρωτοσύγκελλον σκέπε.

Accession number BZS.1955.1.5040
Diameter 27.0 mm; field: 23.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 16.9b; Laurent, Corpus V/3, no. 1783; cf. Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden I, no. 1370. See Zacos, Seals II, no. 842, for a parallel specimen.

Translation

Μάρτυς θύτην σὸν τὸν Εὐχαΐτων πρωτοσύγκελλον σκέπε.

Martyr, protect your servant, the metropolitan of Euchaita and protosynkellos.

Commentary

This seal and BZS.1955.1.5039 bear the same iconography and epigraphy and seem to come from the same boulloterion; see the commentary to the latter specimen.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 4: The East (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (Open in Zotero)
  • The Anonymous Seal (Open in Zotero)
  • Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Open in Zotero)
  • Le dédoublement de Saint Théodore et les villes d’Euchaïta et d’Euchaneia (Open in Zotero)
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  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
  • Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
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