Metropolitan of the Holy Church of Tyana (seventh century)
Obverse
Inscription of four lines. Wreath border.
+του
μητρο
πολι
τοΥ
Τοῦ μητροπολίτου
Reverse
Inscription of four lines. Wreath border.
τησ
γ⸉εκ
κλ⸉τυ
σ
τῆς ἁγίας ἐκκλησίας Τυάνης
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.461 |
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Diameter | 24.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 4, no. 47.1a. Laurent, Corpus V/3, no. 1724; Zacos-Veglery, no. 936. |
Translation
Τοῦ μητροπολίτου τῆς ἁγίας ἐκκλησίας Τυάνης.
(Seal of) the metropolitan of the Holy Church of Tyana.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 4: The East (Open in Zotero)
- Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Open in Zotero)
- Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen (Open in Zotero)
- Kappadokien (Kappadokia, Charsianon, Sebasteia und Lykandos) (Open in Zotero)
- Η Μικρά Ασία των θεμάτων. Ἐρευνες πάνω στην γεωγραφική φυσιογνωμία και προσωπογραφία των βυζαντινών θεμάτων της Μικράς Ασίας (Open in Zotero)
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
This seal and BZS.1958.106.462 come from the same boulloterion. BZS.1958.106.463 comes from a different boulloterion than these two, but it has the same inscription and dates from the same time period.
Today Kemerhisar (formerly Denee), is approximately 65 km northwest of the Cilician Gates. Tyana became the metropolis of Cappadocia II in the fourth century and is attested until the fourteenth. It had a second name, Christoupolis (Darrouzès, Notitiae, no. 4, l. 19; no. 15, l. 14). See Zgusta, 637-638; Hild-Restle, Kappadokien, 298-99; ODB III, 2130; Mikra Asia them., 136-137; Laurent, Corpus V/1, 316. List of metropolitans in Fedalto, HEO I, 30-31.