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Euthymios archbishop of Pareon (ninth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V). In the quarters: ΤΣ|ΔΛ. Border of dots.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines, a decoration below. Border of dots.

ΕΥΘΥ
ΜΗΡΧΙ
ΕΠΗΣΚΟΠ
ΠΡΕΟΥ


Εὐθυμήῳ ἀρχιεπησκόπῳ Παρέου

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V). In the quarters: ΤΣ|ΔΛ. Border of dots.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines, a decoration below. Border of dots.

ΕΥΘΥ
ΜΗΡΧΙ
ΕΠΗΣΚΟΠ
ΠΡΕΟΥ


Εὐθυμήῳ ἀρχιεπησκόπῳ Παρέου

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.15
Diameter 28.0 mm; field: 24.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 64.2; Laurent, Corpus, V/1, no. 825; Laurent BZ 30 (1929/30) 634.
Parallel specimens are found in the ANS collection and in the Hermitage (Lihačev, Molivdouvuly, 69-70 (pl. LX, 2).

Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Εὐθυμήῳ ἀρχιεπησκόπῳ Παρέου.

Mother of God, help your servant Euthymios, archbishop of Pareon.

Commentary

Laurent suggests that the form Παρέου can be explained either as an engraver's error or as a result of the vocalism that interchanges iota with epsilon (Psaltes, Grammatik, 24-28).

Parion (modern Kemer on the Hellespont) was initially a suffragan bishopric of Kyzikos (represented at the Council of Nicaea in 325); by 640 it was an archbishopric and appears as such in all notitiae until the thirteenth century. Before 1261 it was united to the metropolis of Pegai. See Laurent, Corpus V/1, 641.

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