Theodore metropolitan of Ainos (eleventh century)
Obverse
Bust of the Virgin orans with medallion of Christ before her. Sigla: ̅ΘΥ̅ : Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Border of dots.
Obverse
Bust of the Virgin orans with medallion of Christ before her. Sigla: ̅ΘΥ̅ : Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Border of dots.
Reverse
Inscription of four lines preceded and followed by decoration. Border of dots.
ΘΚΕ,Θ,
ΘΕΟΔΡ
ΜΡΟΠΟΛΙΤ,
ΑΙΝΟΥ
·
Θεοτόκε βοήθει Θεοδώρῳ μητροπολίτῃ Αἴνου
Accession number | BZS.1955.1.4835 |
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Diameter | 22.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 1, no. 45.5. |
Translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει Θεοδώρῳ μητροπολίτῃ Αἴνου.
Theotokos, help Theodore metropolitan of Ainos.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 1: Italy, North of the Balkans, North of the Black Sea (Open in Zotero)
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- La Thrace Orientale et La Mer Noire: Géographie Ecclésiastique et Prosopographie (VIIIe-XIIe Siècles) (Open in Zotero)
- Les Rhodopes dans la deuxième moitié du XIIIe s: prosopographie (Open in Zotero)
- Pernik (Open in Zotero)
- Enez (Ainos) Araştırmaları (Open in Zotero)
- Enez (Ainos) Kazıları (Open in Zotero)
- Enez Limanının Değişen Öneminde Deltasının (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
Ainos, modern Enez in Turkish Thrace, was originally a suffragan bishopric of Traïanoupolis. It is mentioned in the ekthesis of Pseudo-Epiphanios as an archbishopric and became a metropolitan see by 1032. See Laurent, Corpus V/1, 614-15; Asdracha, Thrace orientale, 242-243 and 288-89; Asdracha, in REB 31 (1973) 291 and in BNJ 23 (1979) 44-51. Since the publication of the third volume of Laurent's corpus of ecclesiastical seals, the excavations at Pernik (Pernik [Sophia, 1983] 129) have yielded the late eleventh/early twelfth century seal of another unknown prelate of Ainos, the metropolitan Andronikos. The city has been the object of extensive excavations: A. Erzen, "Enez (Ainos) Araştırmaları," Güney-Doğu Avrupa Araştırmaları Dergisi (Istanbul Univ., Edebiyat Fak.) 1 (1972) 235-48; A. Erzen, "Enez (Ainos) Kazıları," ibid. 2-3 (1974) 217-238; K. Göçmen, "Enez limanının değişen öneminde deltasının Etkileri," ibid. 253-266.