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
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From: Zolotas 1908.
Record Created By
Paweł Nowakowski
Date of Entry
13/07/2016
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00425 | Isidoros, soldier and martyr of Chios | Certain |
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