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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.

Reverse

Inscription of four lines, preceded by an irregular row of pellets. Border of dots.


ΝΙΚΗ
ΦΟΡ,ΕΠΙ
ΣΚΟΠ,ΣΙ
ΝΔΗΣ

Νικηφόρου ἐπισκόπου Σίνδης

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
Diameter 22.0 mm; field: 14.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 79.1.

Translation

Νικηφόρου ἐπισκόπου Σίνδης.

Nikephoros bishop of Sinde.

Commentary

Sindos (Isindos), but also σίνδων 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.

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)