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Demetrios metropolitan of Kyzikos, oikonomos of the (Great) Church and synkellos (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

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

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ΣΤΕΡ

ΟΗΘ..
ΚΥΖIΚ..
ΗΜΗ
ΤΡΙ

Σῶτερ βοήθει Κυζίκ[ου] Δημητρίῳ

Reverse

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


.ΚΚΛΗ

.ΙΑΣΣΗΣ
.ΙΚΟΝΟ
ΜΣΥΓ
ΚΕΛΛ

[ἐ]κκλη[σ]ίας σῆς [ο]ἰκονόμῳ, συγκέλλῳ

Obverse

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

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ΣΤΕΡ

ΟΗΘ..
ΚΥΖIΚ..
ΗΜΗ
ΤΡΙ

Σῶτερ βοήθει Κυζίκ[ου] Δημητρίῳ

Reverse

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


.ΚΚΛΗ

.ΙΑΣΣΗΣ
.ΙΚΟΝΟ
ΜΣΥΓ
ΚΕΛΛ

[ἐ]κκλη[σ]ίας σῆς [ο]ἰκονόμῳ, συγκέλλῳ

Accession number BZS.1958.106.33
Diameter 25.0 mm; field: 20.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 53.4.
Laurent, Corpus, V/1, no. 55.
Oikonomides, Dated Seals, no. 79.

Translation

Σῶτερ βοήθει Κυζίκου Δημητρίῳ ἐκκλησίας σῆς οἰκονόμῳ, συγκέλλῳ.

Savior, help Demetrios (metropolitan) of Kyzikos, oikonomos of your (Great) Church, (and) synkellos.

Commentary

Two dodecasyllable verses. As Laurent observed, this specimen belonged to Demetrios of Kyzikos, who was appointed synkellos in 1029 (Skylitzes, 375) and oikonomos of the Great Church before April 1032 (Ficker, Erlasse, 25).

Kyzikos (modern Balkız) was originally a bishopric of the eparchia of Asia, but in the second half of the IVth century it became the metropolis of the Hellespont. It is listed in all the notitiae until the XVth century. In 688-689 Cypriots were brought to inhabit the peninsula together with their archbishop (cf. DOSeals 2.38). See Laurent, Corpus, V/1, 246-47; Zgusta, 310; Brandes, Städte, 115-18; ODB II, 1164-65.

In addition the seals of this see published by Laurent, see also the bulla of Leo of Kyzikos published in Zacos, Seals II, no. 552; cf. also SBS 3 [1993] 186.

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