Romanos 3

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitVII
ReligionChristian
LocationsTarentum (Calabria);
Tarentum (Calabria) (officeplace)
OccupationBishop
TitlesBishop, Tarantum (Calabria) (office)
Seal SourcesDumbarton 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).

Romanos 3 was bishop of Tarantum (Tarentum); owner of seals dateable to the seventh century: DOSeals I 11.1 = Zacos and Veglery 2340 (and cited in Laurent, Corpus V 3, Concordance, p. 300, no. 926). Two similar seals are published by Laurent, Corpus, V 1, no. 926 (one, illustrated, from the same boulloterion as the DO Seal). Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει and the legend Ῥωμανου. Rev.: episcopi T(a)ranti. The geographical designation could be read as Tranii (i.e. of Trani) but Nesbitt and Oikonomides follow Laurent in preferring Tarantum; they also prefer a seventh century date and suggest that a Greek was most likely to have become bishop there when Constans II (Konstans 1) was active in Sicily and Italy, in and after 663; see Nesbitt and Oikonomides, DO Seals I, pp. 38-39 with notes.

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