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Romanos metropolitan of Thessalonica (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. Demetrios holding spear and round shield. Faint remnants of vertical inscription: Η|Μ,: Ὁ ἅγιος Δημήτριος. No visible border.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

..
Σ
ΜΑΝ
Μ̅Ρ̅ΟΠΟΛΙ
ΘΕΣΑΛ.
ΗΚ

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳωμανῷ μητροπολίτῃ Θεσαλονήκης

Obverse

Bust of St. Demetrios holding spear and round shield. Faint remnants of vertical inscription: Η|Μ,: Ὁ ἅγιος Δημήτριος. No visible border.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

..
Σ
ΜΑΝ
Μ̅Ρ̅ΟΠΟΛΙ
ΘΕΣΑΛ.
ΗΚ

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳωμανῷ μητροπολίτῃ Θεσαλονήκης

Accession number BZS.1958.106.156
Diameter 22.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 18.87.
Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 455.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ῥωμανῷ μητροπολίτῃ Θεσαλονήκης.

Lord, help your servant Romanos metropolitan of Thessalonica.

Commentary

Laurent mistakenly read the vertical inscription on the obv. as Α|Γ. He reasonably attributed this seal to the metropolitan Romanos who succeeded Theophanes in or shortly after 1038 (Gouillard, Synodikon, 114.10).

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