Nikephoros bishop of Sinde (tenth/eleventh century)
Obverse
Faint bust of St. John the Baptist holding a staff cross. Inscription: Ο|ΠΡ: ὁ Πρόδρομος. Border of pellets within concentric circles of dots.
Obverse
Faint bust of St. John the Baptist holding a staff cross. Inscription: Ο|ΠΡ: ὁ Πρόδρομος. Border of pellets within concentric circles of dots.
Reverse
Inscription of four lines, preceded by an irregular row of pellets. Border of dots.
ΝΙΚΗ
ΦΟΡ,ΕΠΙ
ΣΚΟΠ,ΣΙ
ΝΔΗΣ
Νικηφόρου ἐπισκόπου Σίνδης
Accession number | BZS.1955.1.4662 |
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Diameter | 22.0 mm; field: 14.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 79.1. |
Translation
Νικηφόρου ἐπισκόπου Σίνδης.
Nikephoros bishop of Sinde.
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)
- Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen (Open in Zotero)
- Oriens Christianus (Open in Zotero)
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
Sindos (Isindos), but also Ἰσίνδων or, according to our specimen, Σίνδη, Σίνδης, was a suffragan bishopric of Perge of Pamphylia mentioned in all notitiae from the 7th to the 12th century. A bishop of Sindos may have attended the Council of Nicaea (325). It was located in the neighborhood of today's Korkuteli, to the west of Antalya and Termessos. See Zgusta, 202; Le Quien, Oriens Christianus I (Paris, 1740), 1033-34; Fedalto, 249.