Anastasios 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M VIII |
PmbZ No. | 289 |
Religion | Christian |
Locations | Thessalonike (officeplace); Thessalonike |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Archbishop, Thessalonike (office) |
Textual Sources | Gouillard, J., "Le Synodikon de l'orthodoxie", TM 2 (1967), pp. 45-107 (liturgical) |
Seal Sources | Dumbarton Oaks, A Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, eds., J. Nesbitt and N. Oikonomides (Washington, DC, 1991-); Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981); Oikonomides, N., A Collection of Dated Byzantine Lead Seals (Washington, DC, 1986); Zacos, G. and Veglery, A., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. I (in 3 parts) (Basel, 1972). |
Anastasios 3 was archbishop of Thessalonike; owner of a seal dateable to the mid eighth century: DOSeals I 18.79 = Laurent, Corpus V 3, no. 1727 = Zacos and Veglery 1701 = Oikonomides, Dated Seals, pp. 48-49, no. 37. Obv.: cruciform monogram of ὁ Θεὸς βοήθει with the legend τω - σω - δου - λω in the corners. Rev.: cruciform monogram of Ἀναστασίῳ and the circular legend + ἀρχιεπισκ(όπῳ) Θεσσαλονίκης. His date is mid eighth century, between Petros 3 and Theophilos 12 (who was archbishop in 787), and after 754 (since his seal is aniconic): see Nesbitt and Oikonomides, DOSeals I, p. 78, note, and also Oikonomides, Dated Seals, p. 47, and Gouillard, "Synodikon", p. 114. Named in a list of archbishops of Thessalonike in the Synodikon of Orthodoxy between Petros 3 and Theophilos 12: Gouillard, " Synodikon", p. 114, IX, line 5.
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