Leo 89 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | VIII |
PmbZ No. | 4273 |
Religion | Christian |
Locations | Tauromenion (Sicily) (officeplace); Tauromenion (Sicily) |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Bishop, Tauromenion (Sicily) (office) |
Textual Sources | Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, Vol. IV, ed. A. Boeckh and others (epigraphy) |
Seal Sources | Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981); Schlumberger, G. Sigillographie de l'empire byzantin (Paris, 1884) |
Leo 89 was bishop of Tauromenion; owner of a seal dateable to the eighth century: Laurent, Corpus V 1, no. 897 = Schlumberger, Sig., p. 232, no. 3 = CIG IV 9029. Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει, with the legend τοῦ δούλου σου +. Rev.: +- Λέοντ(ος) - επισκόπ(ου) - [τ]οῦ Ταυρ - [ομε]νι[ου]. Laurent preferred the eighth century to Schlumberger's suggestion of the ninth.
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