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Euthymios metropolitan of Larissa (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. Euthymios with long beard. Gestures unclear. On either side, inscription: ΕΥ|Θ|ΥΜ|ΙΟ|Σ. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

σφραγ,
ευθυμι
μροπολιτ
λαρισ
σησ

Σφραγὶς Εὐθυμίου μητροπολίτου Λαρίσσης

Obverse

Bust of St. Euthymios with long beard. Gestures unclear. On either side, inscription: ΕΥ|Θ|ΥΜ|ΙΟ|Σ. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

σφραγ,
ευθυμι
μροπολιτ
λαρισ
σησ

Σφραγὶς Εὐθυμίου μητροπολίτου Λαρίσσης

Accession number BZS 1955.1.5063
Diameter 17.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 17.2.

Translation

Σφραγὶς Εὐθυμίου μητροπολίτου Λαρίσσης.

Seal of Euthymios metropolitan of Larissa.

Commentary

The owner can be identified with the same Euthymios who became protosynkellos and represented his namesake on a seal published by (Zacos, Seals II, no. 263. He will have lived in the second half of the 11th century.

On the see of Larissa (same name today), first attested in the 4th century and later mentioned as a metropolis with its suffragans in the notitiae, see Laurent, Corpus V/1, 508ff (and Lihačev, Molivdovully, 178, no. 5); Avramea, 124ff, 191ff; Koder-Hild, Hellas, 198-99; Fedalto, 458-60.

Bibliography

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