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Stephen (metropolitan) of Ankyra (seventh/eighth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V). Wreath border.

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Wreath border.

στε
φανου
ανκυρ
α.

Στεφάνου Ἀνκύρα[ς]

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V). Wreath border.

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Wreath border.

στε
φανου
ανκυρ
α.

Στεφάνου Ἀνκύρα[ς]

Accession number BZS.1958.106.271
Diameter 24.0 mm; field: 19.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 2.2.

Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 336.

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει. Στεφάνου Ἀνκύρας.

Theotokos, give thy aid. (Seal of) Stephanos of Ankyra.

Commentary

It is not impossible that this specimen refers to the bishopric of Ankyra in Phrygia. But we are inclined, as was Laurent, to attribute it to the metropolis of Galatia because in the late eighth century a metropolitan of Ankyra named Stephanos is known to have been active; he signed the Acts of the Council in Trullo in 691 (Corpus V/1, 240).

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