Sergios metropolitan of Karia (eighth/ninth century)
Obverse
The Virgin standing and holding Christ. Small crosses on both sides of her halo. On the left, a cruciform monogram of Θεοτόκε; at right, a cruciform monogram of βοήθει. Wreath border.
Θεοτόκε βοήθει
Obverse
The Virgin standing and holding Christ. Small crosses on both sides of her halo. On the left, a cruciform monogram of Θεοτόκε; at right, a cruciform monogram of βοήθει. Wreath border.
Θεοτόκε βοήθει
Reverse
Inscription of five lines. Wreath border.
ΣΕΡ
ΓΙΩΜΗ
ΤΡΟΠΟΛ
ΙΤΗΚΑΡ
ΙΑΣ
Σεργίῳ μητροπολίτῃ Καρίας
Accession number | BZS.1951.31.5.509 |
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Diameter | 32.0 mm; field: 26.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 66.5. |
Credit Line | Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore. |
Translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει Σεργίῳ μητροπολίτῃ Καρίας.
Mother of God, help Sergios, metropolitan of Karia.
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)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (Open in Zotero)
- Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Open in Zotero)
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals from Aphrodisias (Open in Zotero)
- Sur les variations numériques des évêchés byzantins (Open in Zotero)
- Die Städte Kleinasiens im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert (Open in Zotero)