Arsenios 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VIII/E IX |
| PmbZ No. | 625 |
| Religion | Christian; Iconophile |
| Locations | Karalis (Sardinia) (officeplace); Karalis (Sardinia) |
| Occupation | Bishop |
| Titles | Archbishop, Sardinia (office) |
| 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); Zacos, G. and Veglery, A., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. I (in 3 parts) (Basel, 1972). |
Arsenios 1 was archbishop of Sardinia; owner of a seal dateable to the eighth or ninth century: DOSeals I 9.1 = Laurent, Corpus V 1, no. 917 = Zacos and Veglery 1328. Obv.: Virgin and Child, between cruciform monograms of Θεοτόκε and βοήθει. Rev.: +Αρσε - νιω αρχι - επισκοπω - Σαρδηνι - ας. Nesbitt and Oikonomides (DOSeals I, p. 37, note) suggest a date in the period of the iconophile reaction (787-815) on stylistic grounds (the Virgin between two monograms and the shape of the B) and following Laurent propose identifying him with Arsenios bishop of Cagliari mentioned in a letter of pope Leo IV (Leo 121) in 850/854 who was a heretic and lived well before Leo 121 himself: cf. Laurent, pp. 723-4, note and, for the letter of Leo IV, S. Loewenfeld, ed., Epistolae episcoporum romanorum ineditae (Leipzig, 1885), p. 22, no. 42.
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