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Samuel monk and hegoumenos of (the monastery of) the Andraktoi (tenth/eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of the Mother of God holding a medallion of Christ before her. Sigla at right: ΘΥ̅ : [Μ(ήτη)ρ] Θ(εο)ῦ. Circular inscription beginning at nine o'clock. Border of dots.

...εθτˊδ,

[Θ(εοτό)κ]ε β(οή)θ(ει) τῷ σ(ῷ) δ(ούλῳ)

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

σμο
ηλμον,χ,
Sιγουμ,
της,δ
ρκτˊ

Σαμοὺλ μον(α)χ(ῷ) (καὶ) ἱγουμ(ένῳ) τῆς Ἀ(ν)δράκτ(ων)

Obverse

Bust of the Mother of God holding a medallion of Christ before her. Sigla at right: ΘΥ̅ : [Μ(ήτη)ρ] Θ(εο)ῦ. Circular inscription beginning at nine o'clock. Border of dots.

...εθτˊδ,

[Θ(εοτό)κ]ε β(οή)θ(ει) τῷ σ(ῷ) δ(ούλῳ)

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

σμο
ηλμον,χ,
Sιγουμ,
της,δ
ρκτˊ

Σαμοὺλ μον(α)χ(ῷ) (καὶ) ἱγουμ(ένῳ) τῆς Ἀ(ν)δράκτ(ων)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.564
Diameter 22.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 5 no. 67.1; Laurent, Corpus 5.2: no. 1214 (with misreading, repeated in PBW : Samuel 20110).

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

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Σαμοὺλ μοναχῷ καὶ ἱγουμένῳ τῆς Ἀνδράκτων.

Mother of God, help your servant Samuel monk and hegoumenos of (the monastery of) the Andraktoi.

Commentary

Lines 4–5 (reverse): Laurent read: τῆς (μονῆς) Ἀ<τ>ράκτ(ων). There is space at the end of line 3 to read ἱγουμ(έ)[ν(ῳ)].

The monastery is attested by seals as well as among the signatories at the Second Council of Nicaea (787). See Janin, Grands centres, 434, no. 53.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Volume 5: The East (continued), Constantinople and Environs, Unknown Locations, Addenda, Uncertain Readings (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)