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Sergios bishop of Atramyttion (tenth/eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin orans; no inscription visible. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

..εργ..
..αχισ..
..ισκοπ,
ατραμυ
τη

[Σ]εργ[ίῳ ἐλ]αχίσ[τῳ ἐπ]ισκόπ(ῳ) [Ἀ]τραμυτήου

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin orans; no inscription visible. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

..εργ..
..αχισ..
..ισκοπ,
ατραμυ
τη

[Σ]εργ[ίῳ ἐλ]αχίσ[τῳ ἐπ]ισκόπ(ῳ) [Ἀ]τραμυτήου

Accession number BZS.1947.2.36
Diameter 25.0 mm; field: 19.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 3.5; Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 272. See PBW : Sergios 20111.

Translation

Σεργίῳ ἐλαχίστῳ ἐπισκόπῳ Ἀτραμυτήου.

Sergios, most humble bishop of Atramyttion.

Commentary

Adramyttion or Atramyttion (modern Edremit) was an important naval base, part of the Thrakesion; after the creation of the theme of Samos, between 843 and 899, Adramyttion with the littoral became the seat of one of its tourmai (De Them., chap. XVI, line 15) while the interior belonged to the strategos of the Thrakesion, who also had, at least in the ninth century, a tourmarches at Adramyttion. The see, a suffragan of Ephesos, was first attested in 431 and appears in all the notitiae.See Laurent, Corpus V/1, 190; Culerrier, Suffragants d'Ephèse, 153 (episcopal list); ODB I, 227.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 3: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient (Open in Zotero)
  • De Thematibus (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
  • Les évêchés suffragants d’Ephèse aux 5e-13e siècles (Open in Zotero)