Georgios 76 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E/M IX |
PmbZ No. | 2199 |
Religion | Christian |
Locations | Serres (officeplace); Serres |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Archbishop, Serres (office); Bishop, Serres (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). |
Georgios 76 was archbishop of Serres; owner of a seal dateable to the early or mid ninth century: DOSeals I 42.1 = Laurent, Corpus V 3, no. 1818 = Zacos and Veglery 1914. Obv.: cruciform monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with τω - σω - δου - λω. Rev.: +Γεορ - γηο. Αρχη - επισκοπ - ου Σερας. Nesbitt and Oikonomides date the seal before the mid ninth century from the form of the beta; on this and on the syntax, and their resolution of a difficulty, see Nesbitt and Oikonomides, DO Seals, p. 109, note.
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