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Byzantine Iconographic PB Seal in the name of Paul, metropolitan of Synada. Circa 8th - 9th century AD. The Mother of God Hodegetria, nimbate, standing facing, wearing chiton and maphorion, and holding Christ; cruciform invocative monogram (BLS, type XIV) = ΘЄΟΤΟΚЄ to left, cruciform invocative monogram (BLS, type VIII) = BOHΘH to right; all within border of dots / Cruciform monogram consisting of A, MH (ligate), HΠ (ligate), ѠΛ (ligate) and TPO (ligate); CV NN AΔЄ ΟΝ in quarters; all within border of dots. Translation: Mother of God, help Paul, metropolitan of Synada. BLS I -; BLS II -; DOC -. 15.92g, 25mm, 12h.
Condition as seen.
The iconographic type of this seal and the two-loop beta at the bottom of the invocative monogram on the obverse indicate that this seal is from the period of the iconophile reaction (787-815).
Synada was a city whose bishops are attested from the third century, and it was a metropolis in a region where heresies were rampant. Although poor and situated in an unproductive region, this metropolis seems to have survived as late as the fourteenth century.
Condition as seen.
The iconographic type of this seal and the two-loop beta at the bottom of the invocative monogram on the obverse indicate that this seal is from the period of the iconophile reaction (787-815).
Synada was a city whose bishops are attested from the third century, and it was a metropolis in a region where heresies were rampant. Although poor and situated in an unproductive region, this metropolis seems to have survived as late as the fourteenth century.