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Seals Of The Monasteries	17.6 Seal of a dependency of the Iviron Monastery at Kalyvia in Eastern Thrace 19th c., 1st half Iviron Monastery Copper alloy, diameter 7.1 cm
	On the matrix of this seal is a stylized representation of the Virgin and Child, in the type of the Hodegetria. The base to which it was once secured by means of a hole in the centre has been lost. The haloes behind the Virgin and the Christ Child display, respectively, the following legends: MH(TH)P Θ(EO)Y and O ΩN ('He that is'); to the left of the figure of Christ is his monogram I(HΣOY)Σ X(PIΣTO)Σ. Around the perimeter runs the legend: + H ΠAPOYΣA ΣΦPAΓ(I)ΔA HNΔE + THΣ ΠANAΓIAΣ + THΣ ΦANEPOMENHΣ + AΠ(O) + TA KAΛIBIA+ ('This seal belonged to the [church of] the Panagia Phaneromeni in Kalyvia'). The Church of the Virgin in Kalyvia (Eastern Thrace) was bequeathed to the Iviron Monastery as a dependency in 1763.
	Bibliography: Unpublished.
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	Index of exhibits of Monastery of Iviron 19th century

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