Thomas bishop of Eudokias (eleventh century)
Obverse
Bust of the Virgin with hands open before her. Sigla with tongues of fire. .Ρ̅Θ̅Υ̅ : Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Border of dots.
Obverse
Bust of the Virgin with hands open before her. Sigla with tongues of fire. .Ρ̅Θ̅Υ̅ : Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Border of dots.
Reverse
Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.
.θκε
.θμα
.πικοπˊ
ευδοκι
αδˊ
Θεοτόκε βοήθει Θωμᾷ ἐπισκόπῳ Εὐδοκιάδος
Accession number | BZS.1951.31.5.2063 |
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Diameter | 23.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 3, no. 104.2. |
Credit Line | Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore. |
Translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει Θωμᾷ ἐπισκόπῳ Εὐδοκιάδος.
Mother of God, help Thomas, bishop of Eudokias.
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)
- De Administrando Imperio (Open in Zotero)
- Galatien und Lykaonien (Open in Zotero)
- Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
Three bishoprics in Asia Minor are known to the notitiae under the name Eudokias: (a) a suffragan of Ikonion in Lykaonia, identified with Çesmelisebil, 85 km to the north of Konya, a place that was the seat of a regiment of the theme of the Anatolikoi that was transferred to the theme of Kappodokia in the early 10th century (De Adm. Imp., chap. 50, line 97; Galatien und Lykaonien, 166); (b) a suffragan of Myra in Lykia, probably identical to the ancient Pyrrha (in the neighborhood of modern Kalkan, opposite to Kastellorizo); it was also called Ioustinianoupolis, and is attested only once, in 518; and (c) a suffragan of Perge in Pamphylia, which is identified with modern Karpinarköy, and is attested several times between 325 and 787. See DHGE 15 (1963) 1335, 1335-36.
It is probable that both this seal and BZS.1958.106.5439 come from the same Eudokias, as they both display the same type of Virgin.