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Constantine proedros (metropolitan) of the Thessalians (twelfth century)

 
 

Obverse

St. Demetrios standing, holding spear. Inscription in two columns: |Δ|Η|Τ|ΡΙ|ΟΣ: Ὁ ἅγιος Δημήτριος. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, cross above. Border of dots.


ΣΦΡΑΓΙΣ
ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΥ
ΘΕΤΤΑΛ̀Ν
ΚΝΑΝ
ΤΙΝ

Σφραγὶς προέδρου Θετταλῶν Κωνσταντίνου

Obverse

St. Demetrios standing, holding spear. Inscription in two columns: |Δ|Η|Τ|ΡΙ|ΟΣ: Ὁ ἅγιος Δημήτριος. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, cross above. Border of dots.


ΣΦΡΑΓΙΣ
ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΥ
ΘΕΤΤΑΛ̀Ν
ΚΝΑΝ
ΤΙΝ

Σφραγὶς προέδρου Θετταλῶν Κωνσταντίνου

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.2016
Diameter 24.0 mm; field: 18.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 18.81a.
Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 459.
Cf. Zacos, Seals II, nos. 428a-b, which publishes two additional specimens from the same boulloterion. See also Wassiliou-Seibt, Siegel mit metrischen Legenden II, no. 2756.

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

Translation

Σφραγὶς προέδρου Θετταλῶν Κωνσταντίνου.

Seal of Constantine, metropolitan of the Thessalians.

Commentary

This specimen seems to come from the same boulloterion as BZS.1955.1.5030. See the commentary to that entry.

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