Aimilios (metropolitan) of Laodikeia (seventh century)
Obverse
Cruciform monogram with above; at right; μ at left; and either λ or δ at bottom (the latter is largely destroyed). As there is no ν, we see only one solution of the monogram, Αἰμιλίου and not Αἰμιλιανοῦ. Wreath border.
Obverse
Cruciform monogram with above; at right; μ at left; and either λ or δ at bottom (the latter is largely destroyed). As there is no ν, we see only one solution of the monogram, Αἰμιλίου and not Αἰμιλιανοῦ. Wreath border.
Reverse
Inscription of six lines. Wreath border.
+νξ
ιεπισκο
πτησλο
δικενμ
ητρπο
λεσ
ἀναξίου ἐπισκόπου τῆς Λαοδικέων μητρωπόλεως
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.262 |
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Diameter | 31.0 mm; field: 26.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 3, no. 21.1. Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 525. |
Translation
Αἰμιλίου ἀναξίου ἐπισκόπου τῆς Λαοδικέων μητρωπόλεως.
(Seal of) Aimilios, unworthy bishop of the metropolis of Laodikeia.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 3: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient (Open in Zotero)
- Die Städte Kleinasiens im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert (Open in Zotero)
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Open in Zotero)
- Phrygien und Pisidien (Open in Zotero)
- Studies in Byzantine Sigillography (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
Laodikeia (near modern Denizli), a center of tax levying (cf. the seal of a dioiketes: Zacos-Veglery, no. 1748) and one of the oldest metropoleis of Asia Minor, appears in all notitiae at the head of the province of Phrygia Pakatiane – a province that underwent a major restructuring during the "Dark Ages." It has to be carefully distinguished from Laodikeia of Syria. See Brandes, Städte, 94-95; Laurent, Corpus V/1, 387l; Darrouzès, Notitiae, 25-27, 77; Phrygien und Pisidien, 323-26. Further seals of metropolitans in SBS 3 (1993) 131-32, 165, 192.