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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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A low-relief carving of *Isidoros (soldier and martyr of Chios, S00425). Found at the island of Chios (the Aegean Islands). Exact provenance unknown. Perhaps late antique.

Evidence ID

E01723

Type of Evidence

Inscriptions - Inscribed architectural elements

Images and objects - Representative images

Inscriptions - Formal inscriptions (stone, mosaic, etc.)

A marble plaque with a low-relief carving of the bust of a male saint, within a medallion. Seen and copied by Georgios Zolotas in the Museum of the Gymnasium in Chios. Exact provenance unknown. There is no published description of the image.

Based on the label (which clearly bears the letters ΙCΙΔΟ/ISIDO), Georgios Soteriou identified the saint as Isidoros, a local martyr of Chios, whose cult was known, for example, to Gregory of Tours in the late 6th c. (see: E00654).

Dating: possibly late antique, but perhaps more likely middle Byzantine.

Use of Images

Public display of an image

Bibliography

Edition:
Zolotas, G., Επιγραφαί Χίου ανέκδοτοι , Athena 20 (1908), plate 28.

Further reading:
Kiourtzian, G., "Pietas insulariorum", [in:] Eupsychia: mélanges offerts à Hélène Ahrweiler, vol. 2 (Série Byzantina Sorbonensia 16, Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 1998), 375.

Soteriou, G., “Εφορεία βυζαντιάκων αρχαιοτήτων”,
Archaiologikon Deltion 2 (1916), parartema, 29.

Images



From: Zolotas 1908.
























Record Created By

Paweł Nowakowski

Date of Entry

13/07/2016

Related Saint Records
IDNameName in SourceIdentity
S00425Isidoros, soldier and martyr of ChiosCertain


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