John (metropolitan) of Chalcedon (twelfth/thirteen century)
Obverse
St. Euphemia, orans, standing on a dais. Sigla: Η|Α|ΓΙ|ΑΕΥ|ΦΗ|ΜΙ|Α: Ἡ ἁγία Εὐφημία. Border of dots.
Obverse
St. Euphemia, orans, standing on a dais. Sigla: Η|Α|ΓΙ|ΑΕΥ|ΦΗ|ΜΙ|Α: Ἡ ἁγία Εὐφημία. Border of dots.
Reverse
Inscription of four lines, cross above and two horizontal lines below.
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ΙΑ
ΣΦΡΑΓΙΣΜΑ
ΤΧΑΛΚΗ
ΔΟΝΟΣ
Ἰωάννου σφράγισμα τοῦ Χαλκηδόνος
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.5094 |
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Diameter | 37.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 3, no. 77.4c`. |
Translation
Ἰωάννου σφράγισμα τοῦ Χαλκηδόνος.
Seal of John (bishop of) Chalcedon.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 3: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient (Open in Zotero)
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (Open in Zotero)
- Les sceaux byzantins de la Collection Henri Seyrig (Open in Zotero)
- La géographie ecclésiastique de l’empire byzantin, vol. 2, Les églises et les monastères des grands centres byzantins (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
This seal is edited jointly with BZS 1955.1.4984, a better preserved specimen from the same boulloterion.
Dodecasyllable. As Laurent observes, the owner of these seals was probably John of Chalcedon who signed with the synod in 1191 and 1192: John Kastamonites (and not Kastomyres), the well-known canonist (see B. Katsaros, Ἰωάννης Κασταμονίτης [Thessalonica, 1988], 298).