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Nikephoros metropolitan of Madyta (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

The Virgin standing, with medallion of Christ on her breast, flanked by two saints (Nikephoros and Euthymios). Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines, the final three letters between pellets. No border visible.

κε,θ,
κηφορ
μητροπολι
τημαδυ
·τν·

[Θ(εοτό)]κε β(οή)θ(ει) [Νι]κηφόρῳ μητροπολίτῃ Μαδύτων

Obverse

The Virgin standing, with medallion of Christ on her breast, flanked by two saints (Nikephoros and Euthymios). Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines, the final three letters between pellets. No border visible.

κε,θ,
κηφορ
μητροπολι
τημαδυ
·τν·

[Θ(εοτό)]κε β(οή)θ(ει) [Νι]κηφόρῳ μητροπολίτῃ Μαδύτων

Accession number BZS.1958.106.5061
Diameter 25.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 55.2b.
Mentioned in Laurent, Corpus V/3, Concordance, 300.
Cf. Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 727. Laurent compared the DO specimen to one in Istanbul with the same text but a different alignment of letters. A third specimen with the same alignment of letters, but from a different matrices, is published in Zacos, Seals II, no. 635.

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει Νικηφόρῳ μητροπολίτῃ Μαδύτων.

Theotokos, help Nikephoros metropolitan of Madyta.

Commentary

See the commentary to the parallel specimen: BZS 1958.106.2.

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)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (Open in Zotero)
  • Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Open in Zotero)