Basil bishop of Tenos (eleventh century, second half)
Obverse
Bust of St. Basil blessing and holding Gospels. On either side, the inscription: ||ΑΣ|Ι|Λ: ὁ ἅγιος Βασίλειος. Border of dots.
Σφραγὶς Βασιλείου
Obverse
Bust of St. Basil blessing and holding Gospels. On either side, the inscription: ||ΑΣ|Ι|Λ: ὁ ἅγιος Βασίλειος. Border of dots.
Σφραγὶς Βασιλείου
Reverse
Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.
ΣΦΡ
ΓΙΣΣΙ
ΛΕΙΕΠΙ
ΣΚΟΠΟΥ
ΤΙΝ
ἐπισκόπου Τίνου
Accession number | BZS.1955.1.5008 |
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Diameter | 22.0 mm; field: 17.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 57.1a. |
Translation
Σφραγὶς Βασιλείου ἐπισκόπου Τίνου.
Seal of Basil, bishop of Tenos.
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
- Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin, vol. 5, L’Église
- Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, vol. 1: Italy, North of the Balkans, North of the Black Sea
- Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. 1
- Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium
- Les îles de l'empire byzantin
- Corpus der byzantinischen Siegel mit metrischen Legenden Teil 2: N - Sphragis
Commentary
Two six-syllable verses. Cf. DO Seals 1, no. 52.1 and 57.3.
Tenos, an island, a suffragan bishopric of Rhodes, is attested as such in all the notitiae. It seems that it was also a military center, for we know the seal of one topoteretes of Tenos (SBS 2 [1990] 256; Zacos-Veglery, no. 1708). See Laurent, Corpus V/3, 122; Fedalto, 223; Malamut, Iles, 213, 312.