Andrew proedros (= metropolitan) of Crete (eighth century)
Obverse
Bust of St. Titos offering a blessing and holding book. Vertical inscription: Ο|Α|ΓΙ|Ο|Σ|Τ|Ι|ΤΟ|Σ: ὁ ἅγιος Τίτος. Wreath border.
Obverse
Bust of St. Titos offering a blessing and holding book. Vertical inscription: Ο|Α|ΓΙ|Ο|Σ|Τ|Ι|ΤΟ|Σ: ὁ ἅγιος Τίτος. Wreath border.
Reverse
Cruciform monogram: Ἀνδρέαν. Within concentric circles of dots a circular inscription beginning at the top.
ΚΡΗΤΗΣΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΝΧΡΙΣΤΕΣΖΟΙΣ
Κρήτης πρόεδρον, Χριστὲ, σῴζοις Ἀνδρέαν
Accession number | BZS.1955.1.4973 |
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Diameter | 28.0 mm; field: 25.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 36.8b. |
Translation
Κρήτης πρόεδρον, Χριστὲ, σῴζοις Ἀνδρέαν.
Christ, save Andrew proedros of Crete.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 2: South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- A Collection of Dated Byzantine Lead Seals (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Crete, from the 5th Century to the Venetian Conquest (Open in Zotero)
- Les îles de l’empire byzantin: VIIIe-XIIe siècles (Open in Zotero)
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
- Die byzantinische Armee im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Organisation der Tagmata (Open in Zotero)
- Ὁ Ταξίαρχης Κρήτης (Open in Zotero)
- Crete in the Conflicts of the Eighth Century (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
- The Conquest of Crete by the Arabs (ca. 824): A Turning Point in the Struggle between Byzantium and Islam (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
See the commentary to the better preserved parallel BZS 1958.106.5521.