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(Seal of) Germia (seventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Archangel standing frontally, holding a long cross in his right hand. Wreath border.

Reverse

Inscription of three lines. Wreath border.

.ω.
γερμι
ων

Τν Γερμίων

Obverse

Archangel standing frontally, holding a long cross in his right hand. Wreath border.

Reverse

Inscription of three lines. Wreath border.

.ω.
γερμι
ων

Τν Γερμίων

Accession number BZS.1958.106.3150
Diameter 26.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 5.2.
Laurent, Corpus V/3, no. 1811.
Zacos-Veglery, no. 1250.

Translation

Τῶν Γερμίων.

(Seal) of (the church) of Germia.

Commentary

Laurent read the first line of the reverse as ΑΓ ,... : Ἁγίας Ἐκκλησίας and dated the seal to the sixth century.; Zacos and Veglery read the line as .ΩΝ : Τῶν and dated the seal to the eighth. As the latter authors have stressed, the seal may well have belonged to the church of Germia, since it represents its patron saint.

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