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Manuel bishop of Trapobizye (tenth/eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.

ΜΑ
ΝΗΛΟ
ΕΛΑΧ,Ε
ΠΙΣΚ,

Μανουὴλ ὁ ελάχιστος ἐπίσκοπος

Reverse

Inscription of four lines with decoration above, the final letter between bars. Border of dots.

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ΤΡΑ
ΠΙ
ΖΥΗ
Σ

Τραπωβιζύης

Obverse

Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.

ΜΑ
ΝΗΛΟ
ΕΛΑΧ,Ε
ΠΙΣΚ,

Μανουὴλ ὁ ελάχιστος ἐπίσκοπος

Reverse

Inscription of four lines with decoration above, the final letter between bars. Border of dots.

·
ΤΡΑ
ΠΙ
ΖΥΗ
Σ

Τραπωβιζύης

Accession number BZS.1958.106.5324
Diameter 20.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 62.1.
Laurent, Corpus V/3, no. 1776.

Translation

Μανουὴλ ὁ ελάχιστος ἐπίσκοπος Τραπωβιζύης.

Manuel, most humble bishop of Trapobizye.

Commentary

Trapobizye is an unknown site; it is listed, however, as a suffragan of Adrianoupolis in all episcopal lists from the tenth to the thirteenth century. The see was founded by the middle of the ninth century, since its bishop Constantine is recorded in the Photian synod of 879/880. Cf. Laurent, Corpus V/3, 123. Asdracha, Thrace orientale, 261, 300, wonders whether Trapobize became the archbishopric of Karabizye, which appears in the tenth century.

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)