John (metropolitan) of Chalcedon (twelfth/thirteenth century)
Obverse
St. Euphemia, orans, standing on a dais. Sigla: Η|Α|ΓΙ|ΑΕΥ|ΦΗ|ΜΙ|Α: Ἡ ἁγία Εὐφημία. Border of dots.
Obverse
St. Euphemia, orans, standing on a dais. Sigla: Η|Α|ΓΙ|ΑΕΥ|ΦΗ|ΜΙ|Α: Ἡ ἁγία Εὐφημία. Border of dots.
Reverse
Inscription of four lines, cross above and two horizontal lines below.
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Ι̅Α
ΣΦΡΑΓΙΣΜΑ
ΤΧΑΛΚΗ
ΔΟΝΟΣ
Ἰωάννου σφράγισμα τοῦ Χαλκηδόνος
Accession number | BZS.1955.1.4984 |
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Diameter | 33.0 mm; field: 30.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 3, no. 77.4a; Laurent, Corpus V/3, no. 1719. |
Translation
Ἰωάννου σφράγισμα τοῦ Χαλκηδόνος.
Seal of John (bishop of) Chalcedon.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 3: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient (Open in Zotero)
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (Open in Zotero)
- Les sceaux byzantins de la Collection Henri Seyrig (Open in Zotero)
- La géographie ecclésiastique de l’empire byzantin, vol. 2, Les églises et les monastères des grands centres byzantins (Open in Zotero)
- Corpus der byzantinischen Siegel mit metrischen Legenden, Vol. 1, Siegellegenden von Alpha bis inclusive My (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
Dodecasyllable. As Laurent observes, the owner of these seals was probably John of Chalcedon who signs with the synod in 1191 and 1192: John Kastamonites (and not Kastomyres), the well-known canonist (see B. Katsaros, Ἰωάννης Κασταμονίτης [Thessalonica, 1988], 298).
On Chalcedon and the seals of churchmen active there, see BZS 1958.106.35.