Basilios 47 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | VIII/IX |
| PmbZ No. | 893 |
| Variant Names | Basileios |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Nikopolis; Nikopolis (officeplace) |
| Occupation | Bishop |
| Titles | Archbishop, Nikopolis (Epirus or Thrace) (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); Likhachev, N. P., Molivdovuly Grecheskogo Vostoka, ed. V. S. Shandrovskaia (Moscow, 1991) |
basilios 47 was archbishop of Nikopolis (Nikopolis in Epirus and Nikopolis ad Istrum in Thrace both had archbishops; it is uncertain which was his see); owner of a seal dateable to the eighth or ninth century: Laurent, Corpus V 1, 671 = DOSeals II 2.10. Obv.: Virgin holding medallion of Child, with the legend Ὑπεράγια Θεοτόκε βοήτηει. Rev.: +τῷ [σ] - ῷ δούλῳ [Β] - ασιλείῳ ἀ - ρχιεπισκ[όπῳ] Ν - ικοπ[ολεως, ολιτων]. See Laurent, op. cit., p. 505, note. The seal is dated to the eighth or ninth century by Laurent, to the ninth century by the editors of DOSeals. There is a parallel specimen recorded in DO Seals, ad loc., published by Likhachev, Molivdovuly, 157, plate LXVIII, no. 5.
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