Constantine archbishop (= metropolitan) of Herakleia (eighth/ninth century)
Obverse
Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΤΩΣΩ|ΔΛΩ. Wreath border.
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Obverse
Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΤΩΣΩ|ΔΛΩ. Wreath border.
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Reverse
Inscription of five lines, a cross between fleurons above. Wreath border.
ΚΩΝΣΤ
ΤΙΝΩΡΧ
ΗΕΠΙΣΚΩ
ΠΟΗΡΚ
ΛΙΣ
Κωνστα<ν>τίνῳ ἀρχηεπισκώπο Ἡρακλίας
Accession number | BZS.1951.31.5.1269 |
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Diameter | 33.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 1, no. 53.4; Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 301. |
Credit Line | Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore. |
Translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Κωσνταντίνῳ ἀρχηεπισκώπο Ἡρακλίας.
Mother of God, help your servant Constantine archbishop of Herakleia.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 1: Italy, North of the Balkans, North of the Black Sea (Open in Zotero)
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
- La Thrace Orientale et La Mer Noire: Géographie Ecclésiastique et Prosopographie (VIIIe-XIIe Siècles) (Open in Zotero)
- Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
The title archbishop is sometimes used for the highest metropolitans (Laurent, Corpus V/1, XXVIII-XXX). Another seal (BZS.1951.31.5.160) of the same period published by Laurent (Corpus V/1, no. 302) belonged in fact to Constantine bishop of Ἡρακλείας Πό(ντου) which in fact was then a bishopric) and not of Ἡρακλείας πό(λεως), as Laurent erroneously proposed (cf. Zacos-Veglery, no. 1331 and Asdracha, Thrace orientale, 268).