Sabas 5

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL IX/E X
Dates880 (taq) / 913 (ob.)
ReligionChristian
LocationsAthens (Hellas) (officeplace);
Athens (Hellas)
OccupationBishop
TitlesMetropolitan, Athens (Hellas) (office)
Textual SourcesCorpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, Vol. IV, ed. A. Boeckh and others (epigraphy);
Gouillard, J., "Le Synodikon de l'orthodoxie", TM 2 (1967), pp. 45-107 (liturgical)
Seal SourcesKonstantipoulos, K.M., Byzantiaka Molybdoboulla tou en Athenais Ethnikou Nomismatikou Mouseiou (Athens, 1917); repr. from JIAN 5-10 (1902-07);
Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981);
Likhachev, N. P., Istoricheskoe znachenie italo-grecheskhoi ikonopisi. Izobrazheniia Bogomateri v proizvedeniiah italo-grecheskikh ikonopishchev (St Petersburg, 1911);
Schlumberger, G. Sigillographie de l'empire byzantin (Paris, 1884);
Zacos G., and Nesbitt, J., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. II (in 3 parts), (Berne, 1984).

Sabas 5 was metropolitan bishop of Athens; owner of a seal dateable to the late ninth century: Laurent, Corpus V 1, 590 = Schlumberger, Sig., p. 172, no. 1 = Likhachev, IZIGI, Appendix IV, no. 24 = Konstantopoulos, JIAN 9, 57a. Obv.: Virgin holding Child, with the invocative formula +Θ(εοτό)κε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλ(ῳ). Rev.: +Σαβα - μητροπο - λιτη Αθη - νων - +. Probably the owner also of another seal, dateable to the second half of the ninth century: Zacos II 883. Obv.: bust of Virgin holding bust of Child, with the legend +Θ(1εοτό)κε βο[ήθει τῷ] σῷ δούλ(λῳ). Rev.: +Σαβα - μητροπο - λιτη Αθη - νων.

Sabas 5 attended the Photian synod in 879/880 (Mansi XVIIA, 373D), and is probably identical with the metropolitan Sabas attested on an inscription from Skyros dated 894/895 (see EEBS 15 (1939), p. 103) and who died on 3 December 913 (see CIG IV 9358; named on one of the columns of the Parthenon). His name also heads the list of bishops of Athens commemorated on the Sunday of Orthodoxy (see EEBS 13 (1937), p. 14). See Laurent, Corpus, p. 441, note. See further PBE II.

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