Kosmas metropolitan of Nicaea and synkellos (eleventh century)
Obverse
St. Michael standing, holding a labarum and a globus surmounted by a trefoil ornament. On either side, ΜΧ: Μ(ι)χ(αήλ). Within the border of dots, a circular inscription:
....ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓ,.ΟΗΘΕΙ
[Ἀρχι]στράτηγ(ε) βοήθει
Obverse
St. Michael standing, holding a labarum and a globus surmounted by a trefoil ornament. On either side, ΜΧ: Μ(ι)χ(αήλ). Within the border of dots, a circular inscription:
....ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓ,.ΟΗΘΕΙ
[Ἀρχι]στράτηγ(ε) βοήθει
Reverse
Inscription of five lines, preceded and followed by decoration. Border of dots.
+
+ΚΟΣΜΑ
.ΙΤΡ,ΠΟΛΙ
ΤΗΝΗΚΕΑΣ
...ΣΥΓΚΕ
ΛΣ
[]
Κοσμᾷ [μ]ιτρ(ο)πολίτ(ῃ) Νηκέας [καὶ] σύγκελως
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.87 |
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Diameter | 30.0 mm; field: 25.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 3, no. 59.10a. |
Translation
Ἀρχιστράτηγε βοήθει Κοσμᾷ μιτροπολίτῃ Νηκέας καὶ σύγκελως.
Commander of the heavenly hosts, help Kosmas, metropolitan of Nicaea and synkellos.
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)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (Open in Zotero)
- De Thematibus (Open in Zotero)
- La géographie ecclésiastique de l’empire byzantin, vol. 2, Les églises et les monastères des grands centres byzantins (Open in Zotero)
- Die Städte Kleinasiens im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
This seal is edited jointly with another from the same boulloterion: BZS 1955.1.4844.
Note the syntactical inconsistency on the reverse; it is possible that the final ς is a mistake of the engraver and that the last word should be read as συγκέλῳ{σ} in the dative.