Epiphanios metropolitan of Traïanoupolis (eleventh century)
- Accession Number:
- BZS.1958.106.157
Previous Editions
DO Seals 1, no. 61.1.
Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 693.
Details
- Diameter:
- 28 mm
- Condition:
- Deep crack along the channel (rev.).
Obverse
Bust of the Virgin raising her hands before her. No legible sigla; traces of circular inscription along the circumference. Border of dots.
δλ,
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Reverse
Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.
ΕΠΙΦΑ
ΝΙΜ̅Ρ̅Ο̅
ΠΟΛ,.ΡΑΙ
ΑΝΠΟ
ΛΕΣ
Ἐπιφανίῳ μητροπολίτῃ Τραϊανουπόλεως
Translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἐπιφανίῳ μητροπολίτῃ Τραϊανουπόλεως.
Theotokos, help your servant Epiphanios metropolitan of Traianoupolis.
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
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin, vol. 5, L’Église
- Les sceaux byzantins de la région danubienne en Serbie
- La région des Rhodopes aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles: étude de géographie historique
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Commentary
Laurent mistakenly read the metropolitan's name as Προκοπίῳ.
The metropolis (also seat of a strategos in the eleventh century; see Maksimović and Popović, "Les sceaux byzantins de la région danubienne en Serbie," 233), situated on the Via Egnatia, west of the Maritza River, near the village Loutra of the Alexandroupolis region. It existed from the earliest times until the abandonment of the city in the fourteenth century; the see was then transferred to Mosynoupolis. See Laurent, Corpus V/1, 523-23; Asdracha, Rhodopes, 118-20; REB 31 (1973) 290-91; BNJ 23 (1979) 13-21. Inscriptions: Ἀρχ. Δελτ. 35 (1980) (pub. 1986) 256-61.