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George metropolitan of Myra (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. Nicholas blessing and holding the book. On either side the inscription: Ο|ΝΙκ|ο|λ: ὁ ἅγιος Νικόλαος. Within a border of dots, part of a circular inscription.

ΚΕ...ΘΕΙΤ.......

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

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


ΓΕΡΓ,
.ΛΕΘ̅Υ̅
.ΗΤΡΟΠ
.ΛΙΤ,ΜΥ
ΡΝ

Γεωργίῳ λέῳ Θεομητροπολίτ Μύρων

Obverse

Bust of St. Nicholas blessing and holding the book. On either side the inscription: Ο|ΝΙκ|ο|λ: ὁ ἅγιος Νικόλαος. Within a border of dots, part of a circular inscription.

ΚΕ...ΘΕΙΤ.......

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

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


ΓΕΡΓ,
.ΛΕΘ̅Υ̅
.ΗΤΡΟΠ
.ΛΙΤ,ΜΥ
ΡΝ

Γεωργίῳ λέῳ Θεομητροπολίτ Μύρων

Accession number BZS.1958.106.160
Diameter 22.0 mm; field: 17.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 72.3.
Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 504.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Γεωργίῳ ἐλέῳ Θεοῦ μητροπολίτῇ Μύρων.

Lord, help your servant George by the mercy of God metropolitan of Myra.

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)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (Open in Zotero)
  • Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
  • Sur les variations numériques des évêchés byzantins (Open in Zotero)
  • Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen (Open in Zotero)
  • Die Städte Kleinasiens im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert (Open in Zotero)