A misinterpreted byzantine inscription at samos
Abstract
In a tower of the castle of Pythagoreion on Samos there is an inscription already read and published long ago, embedded in its masonry which is the subject of this article. In its first publication it had been related to the emperor Nikephoros Phokas, thus the proposed reading of the date was the year 969. However, according to another possible reading, which is being attempted here, the inscription most probably dates in 1089 and should be related to the imperial estates that belonged to the monastery of Myrelaion of Constantinople. The need to clarify the ownership of the castle could have been dictated by the expansionary attitude that the monastery of Patmos had exhibited towards public estates in certain Aegean islands that belonged to the same Constantinopolitan monastery.
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ΔΡΟΣΟΓΙΑΝΝΗ Φ. (2011). A misinterpreted byzantine inscription at samos. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 24, 45–54. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.366
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