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Basil (bishop) of Aspendos (twelfth century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. Basil holding a book and blessing. Part of an inscription visible. Λ|ΕΙ|ΟΣ: ὁ ἅγιος Βασίλειος. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΤΟΥ.Σ
ΠΕΝΔΙ..
ΣΦΡΑΓΙΣ..
ΑΣΙΛΕ.
ΟΥ

Τοῦ σπενδίων σφράγισμα Βασιλείου

Obverse

Bust of St. Basil holding a book and blessing. Part of an inscription visible. Λ|ΕΙ|ΟΣ: ὁ ἅγιος Βασίλειος. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΤΟΥ.Σ
ΠΕΝΔΙ..
ΣΦΡΑΓΙΣ..
ΑΣΙΛΕ.
ΟΥ

Τοῦ σπενδίων σφράγισμα Βασιλείου

Accession number BZS.1958.106.116
Diameter 30.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 63.1.
Laurent, Corpus V/2, no. 1069 (misread).

Translation

Τοῦ Ἀσπενδίων σφράγισμα Βασιλείου.

The seal of Basil (bishop) of Aspendos.

Commentary

Dodecasyllabic.

Aspendos (ruins near the modern village of Belkis on the Eurymedon River), a suffragan of Side of Pamphylia, is mentioned in all notitiae, seventh to thirteenth centuries. Bishops attended councils from 325 to 787: DHGE 4 (1930) 1073-74; Fedalto, 240; Zgusta, 103.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 2: South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
  • Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Open in Zotero)
  • Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
  • Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen (Open in Zotero)