Revered and all-hymned Virgin, may you protect me, Leo Semnos, metropolitan of Naupaktos.
One way of expressing an individualized connection to a holy figure was through the use of uncommon epithets and vocabulary. In this seal, for instance, Leo works himself into the invocation through a play on words: “semne” (revered) and his name, Semnos.
Image Source
- Seal of Leo Semnos, metropolitan of Naupaktos (twelfth century). BZS.1958.106.1
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