Menas 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | VII/VIII |
PmbZ No. | 4964 |
Religion | Christian |
Occupation | Bishop |
Titles | Bishop, unknown (Crete) (office) |
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); Tsougarakis, D., "The Byzantine Seals of Crete", SBS 2 (1990), pp. 137-152.; Xanthoudides, St., "Molubdinai Boullai Kretes", EEBS 5 (1928), pp. 31-35 |
Menas 2 was bishop of an unnamed see; owner of a seal dateable to the seventh or eighth century (and discovered somewhere in Crete; it is now in the Museum at Heraklion): Tsougarakis, SBS 2, p. 144, no. 4 = Xanthoudides, EEBS 5 (1928), p. 34, no. 5 (fifth or sixth century) = Laurent, Corpus V 1, no. 995 (seventh or eighth century). Obv.: large Greek cross with the legend Μηνα. Rev.: επι - σκοπ - ου. Menas was presumably a bishop in Crete (cf. Laurent, op. cit., p. 765, note), but might be identical with Menas 1, bishop of Karallia in Pamphylia in 787.
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