Jacob metropolitan of Kyzikos (ninth century)
Obverse
Cruciform Invocative monogram (type V). In the quarters: .Σ|ΔΛ
Θεοτόκε βοήθει [τ]ῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Obverse
Cruciform Invocative monogram (type V). In the quarters: .Σ|ΔΛ
Θεοτόκε βοήθει [τ]ῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Reverse
Inscription of four lines. No border visible.
ΙΑΚ
.ΜΗΤΡΟ
ΠΟΛΗΤ /ΚΥ
ΖΙΚΟΥ
Ἰακώ[β]ῳ μητροπολήτ(ῃ) Κυζίκου.
Accession number | BZS.1955.1.4808 |
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Diameter | 28.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 3, no. 50.3. |
Translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἰακώβῳ μητροπολήτῃ Κυζίκου.
Mother God, help your servant Jacob, metropolitan of Kyzikos.
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)
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
- Die Städte Kleinasiens im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert (Open in Zotero)
- Kleinasiatische Ortsnamen (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
The specimen dates before the middle of the ninth century, as indicated by the wreath border present on the obverse, the use of a double loop beta at bottom of the invocative monogram, and the endings of the oblique bars of Κ.
Kyzikos (modern Balkız) was originally a bishopric of the eparchia of Asia, but in the second half of the IVth century it became the metropolis of the Hellespont. It is listed in all the notitiae until the XVth century. In 688-689 Cypriots were brought to inhabit the peninsula together with their archbishop (cf. DOSeals 2.38). See Laurent, Corpus, V/1, 246-47; Zgusta, 310; Brandes, Städte, 115-18; ODB II, 1164-65.
In addition to the seals of this see published by Laurent, see also the bulla of Leo of Kyzikos published in Zacos, Seals II, no. 552; cf. also SBS 3 [1993] 186.