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Sergios metropolitan of Corinth (eleventh/twelfth century)

 
 

Obverse

Saint Theodore standing, holding a spear and a shield resting on the ground. Inscription in two columns: .|  .|ε|ω|...|ο: Ὅ ἅγιος Θεώδορος. This reading is based on comparison with the parallel to this seal (BZS.1958.106.1950). Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

...
ΚΟΡΙΝΘ
ΣΕΡΓΙΟΝ
ΜΑΡΤΥΣ
ΣΚΕΠ

Θύτην Κορίνθου Σέργιον, μάρτυς, σκέποις

Obverse

Saint Theodore standing, holding a spear and a shield resting on the ground. Inscription in two columns: .|  .|ε|ω|...|ο: Ὅ ἅγιος Θεώδορος. This reading is based on comparison with the parallel to this seal (BZS.1958.106.1950). Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

...
ΚΟΡΙΝΘ
ΣΕΡΓΙΟΝ
ΜΑΡΤΥΣ
ΣΚΕΠ

Θύτην Κορίνθου Σέργιον, μάρτυς, σκέποις

Accession number BZS.1947.2.475
Diameter 20.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 25.4a; Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 565. See also Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden I, no. 952.

Translation

Θύτην Κορίνθου Σέργιον, μάρτυς, σκέποις.

Martyr, may you protect Sergios, metropolitan of Corinth.

Commentary

A dodecasyllabic verse employing the archaic thytes in place of the owner's title. When publishing this specimen, Laurent misread the saint's name on the obverse as George (because of the crosslet at the bottom of the column at left, that he took for a Ρ) so creating the false impression that this specimen differed from BZS 1958.106.1950. He attributed the present seal to the metropolitan Sergios, attested in 1094/95 (REB 29 [1971] 218), which seems quite probable.

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)
  • Sigillographie de l’Empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
  • Corinth, Vol. 12, The Minor Objects (Open in Zotero)
  • Sur la route des saints byzantins (Open in Zotero)
  • Les sceaux byzantins de la Collection Henri Seyrig (Open in Zotero)
  • Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
  • Corpus der byzantinischen Siegel mit metrischen Legenden, Vol. 1, Siegellegenden von Alpha bis inclusive My (Open in Zotero)