Antonios archbishop of Nikopolis (ninth/tenth century)
Obverse
The Virgin standing holding Christ. Within concentric circles of dots, a circular inscription.
ΥΠΕΡΑΓΙΑΘΕΟΤΟΚΕΟΗΘΕΙ
Ὑπεραγία Θεοτόκε βοήθει
Obverse
The Virgin standing holding Christ. Within concentric circles of dots, a circular inscription.
ΥΠΕΡΑΓΙΑΘΕΟΤΟΚΕΟΗΘΕΙ
Ὑπεραγία Θεοτόκε βοήθει
Reverse
Inscription of five lines, decorations above and below. Border of dots.
ΤΣ
ΔΟΥΛΝ
ΤΝΗΡΧ
ΗΕΠΙΣΚΠ
ΝΗΚΠ
τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἀντωνήῳ ἀρχηεπισκώπῳ Νηκωπώλεως
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.5 |
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Diameter | 25.0 mm; field: 20.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 2.9a. |
Translation
Ὑπεραγία Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἀντωνήῳ ἀρχηεπισκώπῳ Νηκωπώλεως.
All holy Mother of God, help your servant Antonios, archbishop of Nikopolis.
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)
- A Collection of Dated Byzantine Lead Seals (Open in Zotero)
- Die sphragistischen Quellen zum byzantinischen Thema Nikopolis (Open in Zotero)
- De Administrando Imperio (Open in Zotero)
- Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio (Open in Zotero)
- Nikopolis und Kephallenia (Open in Zotero)
- Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Open in Zotero)
- Nikopolis I: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Nicopolis (Open in Zotero)
- Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
For seals with the same invocation and similar iconography, see Dated Seals, nos. 50, 54, 57 (843-847 to 914-919), and BZS 1947.2.117.