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Philotheos monk, synkellos, and higoumenos of the monastery of Nossiai (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

...,Θ,
ΤΣΔ,
ΦΙΛΟΘΕ
Α̅Χ̅ΣΥΓ
ΚΕΛ

[Κ(ύρι)ε] β(οή)θ(ει) τῷ σῷ δ(ούλῳ) Φιλοθέῳ (μον)αχ(ῷ), συγκέλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΚΑΙΚΑ
ΘΗΓΜΕ
Ν,ΤΗΣΜΟ
Ν,ΤΝΝΟ
ΣΙΝ

καὶ καθηγουμέν(ῳ) τῆς μον(ῆς) τῶν Νοσιῶν

Obverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

...,Θ,
ΤΣΔ,
ΦΙΛΟΘΕ
Α̅Χ̅ΣΥΓ
ΚΕΛ

[Κ(ύρι)ε] β(οή)θ(ει) τῷ σῷ δ(ούλῳ) Φιλοθέῳ (μον)αχ(ῷ), συγκέλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΚΑΙΚΑ
ΘΗΓΜΕ
Ν,ΤΗΣΜΟ
Ν,ΤΝΝΟ
ΣΙΝ

καὶ καθηγουμέν(ῳ) τῆς μον(ῆς) τῶν Νοσιῶν

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.1343
Diameter 28.0 mm; field: 20.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 60.1. See also Laurent, Corpus, V/2, no. 1273.

Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Φιλοθέῳ μοναχῷ, συγκέλῳ καὶ καθηγουμένῳ τῆς μονῆς τῶν Νοσιῶν.

Lord, help your servant Philotheos monk, synkellos, and kathegoumenos of the monastery of Nossiai.

Commentary

The monastery of Nossiai was founded at a port town of this name by Leo VI in the year 912 on behalf of his favorite, Constantine the Paphlagonian, and was dedicated to Christ. The monastery was joined to the Pantokrator in 1136. Its subsequent history is unknown. Cf. Laurent, Corpus V/2, 191; Janin, Grands centres, 59.

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)
  • La géographie ecclésiastique de l’empire byzantin, vol. 2, Les églises et les monastères des grands centres byzantins (Open in Zotero)