Marinos bishop of Athens (seventh/eighth centuryc., probably before 704)
Obverse
Inscription of three lines, cross between tendrils below. Wreath border.
ΘΕ
ΟΤΟΚΕ
ΟΗΘΗ
Θεοτόκε βοήθη
Obverse
Inscription of three lines, cross between tendrils below. Wreath border.
ΘΕ
ΟΤΟΚΕ
ΟΗΘΗ
Θεοτόκε βοήθη
Reverse
Inscription of five lines. Wreath border.
Μ
ΡΙΝΕ
ΠΙΣΚΟΠ
Θ
Ν
Μαρίνῳ ἐπισκόπῳ Ἀθηνῶν
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.350 |
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Diameter | 27.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 9.3. |
Translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθη Μαρίνῳ ἐπισκόπῳ Ἀθηνῶν.
Mother of God, help Marinos bishop of Athens.
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. 1 (Open in Zotero)
- Tὰ χαράγματα τοῦ Παρθενῶς (Open in Zotero)
- Documents de sigillographie byzantine: La collection C. Orghidan (Open in Zotero)
- Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Open in Zotero)
- Die Tarchaneiotai: Eine prosopographisch-sigillographische Studie (Open in Zotero)
- Hellas und Thessalia (Open in Zotero)
- Realities of Byzantine Provincial Government: Hellas and Peloponnesos, 1180-1205 (Open in Zotero)
- La géographie ecclésiastique de l’empire byzantin, vol. 2, Les églises et les monastères des grands centres byzantins (Open in Zotero)
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
- Athen in Byzanz: Traum und Realität (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
Line 4 (rev.): the initial letters ΑΘ in ΑΘΝ are broken and so Laurent misread them. Our seal can reasonably be attributed to Marinos of Athens who died in April of 704 (Orlandos-Branouses, no. 80).