The metropolitan of Neai Patrai (twelfth century)
Obverse
Bust of the Virgin orans with the medallion of Christ before her. Sigla: ̅ΘΥ̅: Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Border of dots.
Reverse
Inscription of five lines, a cross above. Border of dots.
πατρν
νενπρο
εδροναχ
ραντεσκε
.οισ
Πατρῶν Νέων πρόεδρον, Ἅχραντε, σκέ[π]οις
Obverse
Bust of the Virgin orans with the medallion of Christ before her. Sigla: ̅ΘΥ̅: Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Border of dots.
Reverse
Inscription of five lines, a cross above. Border of dots.
πατρν
νενπρο
εδροναχ
ραντεσκε
.οισ
Πατρῶν Νέων πρόεδρον, Ἅχραντε, σκέ[π]οις
| Accession number | BZS.1947.2.1918 |
|---|---|
| Diameter | 21.0 mm |
| Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 18.3; Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 761; and Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden II, no. 1779. |
Translation
Πατρῶν Νέων πρόεδρον, Ἅχραντε, σκέποις.
Immaculate One, may you watch over the metropolitan of Neai Patrai.
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)
- Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Open in Zotero)
- Μολυβδόβουλλα με γνωστή προέλευση από τις συλλογές του Νομισματικού Μουσείου Αθηνών (Open in Zotero)
- Hellas und Thessalia (Open in Zotero)
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
- Corpus der byzantinischen Siegel mit metrischen Legenden, Vol. 2, Siegellegenden von Ny bis inklusive Sphragis (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
Dodecasyllabic.
Neai Patrai is today Hypate. Originally (4th and 5th centuries) the bishopric had the name Hypate. But the name changed before the 9th century, as did the rank: the metropolis of Neai Patrai appears probably in a late 9th-century notitia and certainly from the beginning of the 10th onward (Darrouzès, Notitiae, no. 4, line 491 [?], and no. 7, line 685). See Laurent, Corpus V/1, 581; Avramea, 199-201; Koder-Hild, Hellas, 223-24; Fedalto, 467-68.