Niketas 44

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitVII/XI
ReligionChristian
LocationsNyssa (Asia or Cappadocia) (officeplace);
Nyssa (Asia or Cappadocia)
OccupationBishop
TitlesArchbishop, Nyssa (Lydia or Cappadocia) (office)
Seal SourcesEbersolt, J. "Sceaux byzantins du Musée de Constantinople", RN 4.18 (1914), pp. 207-243, 377-409

Niketas 44 was archbishop of Nysa; owner of a seal of indeterminate date, probably between the seventh and eleventh centuries: Ebersolt, "Sceaux byzantins", p. 222, no. 299. Obv.: bust of St Nikolaos. Rev.: invocative formula and the legend [τῷ] σῷ δού[λῳ] [Ν]ικήτα [ἀρ]χιεπισκόπ[] Νύσης. There was one Nyssa in Cappadocia and another in Asia (in Lydia).

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