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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
γεκ
κλτυ
σ

τῆς ἁγίας ἐκκλησίας Τυάνης

Obverse

Inscription of four lines. Wreath border.

+του
μητρο
πολι
τοΥ

Τοῦ μητροπολίτου

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Wreath border.

τησ
γεκ
κλτυ
σ

τῆς ἁγίας ἐκκλησίας Τυάνης

Accession number BZS.1958.106.463
Diameter 24.0 mm; field: 19.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 47.1c.

Laurent, Corpus V/3, no. 1724.

Translation

Τοῦ μητροπολίτου τῆς ἁγίας ἐκκλησίας Τυάνης.

(Seal of) the metropolitan of the Holy Church of Tyana.

Commentary

This seal comes from a different boulloterion than BZS.1958.106.461 and BZS.1958.106.462, but it has the same inscription and dates from the same time period.

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)
  • Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (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)