Anastasios metropolitan of Side (tenth century)
Obverse
Beardless bust (details indistinct) surrounded by a circle of dots, around which runs a circular inscription. A border of pellets within two concentric circles of dots.
...ΕΟΗΘΕΙΤΣΔΟΥΛ
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Reverse
Inscription of four lines. A border of pellets within two concentric circles of dots.
ΑΝΑΣΤ
ΑΣΙΜΗΤ
ΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗ
ΣΙΔΗΣ
Ἀναστασίῳ μητροπολίτῃ Σίδης
Obverse
Beardless bust (details indistinct) surrounded by a circle of dots, around which runs a circular inscription. A border of pellets within two concentric circles of dots.
...ΕΟΗΘΕΙΤΣΔΟΥΛ
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Reverse
Inscription of four lines. A border of pellets within two concentric circles of dots.
ΑΝΑΣΤ
ΑΣΙΜΗΤ
ΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗ
ΣΙΔΗΣ
Ἀναστασίῳ μητροπολίτῃ Σίδης
| Accession number | BZS.1958.106.58 |
|---|---|
| Diameter | 28.0 mm; field: 22.0 mm |
| Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 78.1. |
Translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἀναστασίῳ μητροπολίτῃ Σίδης
Mother of God, help your servant Anastasios metropolitan of Side.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 2: South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor (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)
- Die Städte Kleinasiens im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 405, published a different seal having belonged to a metropolitan of Side named Anastasios. In our opinion, this specimen is considerably later than ours.
Side (today Selimiye, previously also called Eski Antalya, at 7 km from Manavgat) was a major late antique city, metropolis of Pamphylia first attested in 451, and appearing as such in all notitiae from the 7th century onward. The city declined after the 7th century and was seemingly abandoned in the 11th, probably in favor of Attaleia (which, from bishopric, became [1084] metropolis), but "titular" metropolitans of Side continued being appointed. See Laurent, Corpus V/1, 293-94; Fedalto, 238; Brandes, Städte, 102-3; ODB III, 1892.