Nicholas metropolitan of Gangra (tenth century)
Obverse
Bust of the Virgin with a medallion of Christ before her. Sigla: ̅ – θ̅. : Μ(ήτη)ρ Θ(εο)[ῦ]. Remains of an inscription along the upper periphery, beginning at eight o'clock. No visible border.
.θκεRοηθειτσ
Θ(εοτό)κε βοήθει τῷ σ[ῷ δούλῳ]
Obverse
Bust of the Virgin with a medallion of Christ before her. Sigla: ̅ – θ̅. : Μ(ήτη)ρ Θ(εο)[ῦ]. Remains of an inscription along the upper periphery, beginning at eight o'clock. No visible border.
.θκεRοηθειτσ
Θ(εοτό)κε βοήθει τῷ σ[ῷ δούλῳ]
Reverse
Inscription of four lines. No visible border.
νικ
ολμ.
τροπολη
τηγγγ
ρον
Νικολάῳ μ[η]τροπολήτῃ Γαγγρον
Accession number | BZS.1955.1.4827 |
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Diameter | 21.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 4, no. 17.2a. Laurent, Corpus V/3, no. 1725. |
Translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νικολάῳ μητροπολήτῃ Γαγγρον.
Mother of God, help your servant Nicholas, metropolitan of Gangra.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 4: The East (Open in Zotero)
- Paphlagonien und Honorias (Open in Zotero)
- Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Open in Zotero)
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- Notes de littérature et de géographie écclesiastiques (Open in Zotero)
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
This seal comes from the same boulloterion as BZS.1955.1.4828.
Laurent rightly identifies the owner of the present seal with Nicholas of Gangra, known to have been the owner in 932 of Cod. Haiki. Panaghia 4: see Ὀρθοδοξία 25 (1950) 57.