Germanos 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 819 (taq) / 841 (ob.) |
| PmbZ No. | 2304 |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Athens (Hellas) (officeplace); Athens (Hellas) (residence); Athens (Hellas) |
| Occupation | Bishop |
| Titles | Metropolitan, Athens (Hellas) (office) |
| Textual Sources | Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, Vol. IV, ed. A. Boeckh and others (epigraphy) |
| Seal Sources | Konstantipoulos, 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); Schlumberger, G., Mélanges d'archéologie byzantine (Paris, 1895), pp. 199-274 = repr. of G. Schlumberger, "Sceaux byzantins inédits", REG 2, 4 and 7 (1889, 1891, 1894) |
Germaons 2 was metropolitan bishop of Athens; owner of a seal dateable to the first half of the ninth century: Laurent, Corpus V 1, no. 589 = Schlumberger, Mélanges, p. 202, no. 7, p. 222, no. 39 = Konstantopoulos, JIAN 5, 64. Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with the legend τω - σω - δου - λω. Rev.: +Γερμ - [αν]ω μητ - ροπο[λ(ίτῃ) Α] - θη[νων]. He is to be identified with the archbishop of Athens, Germanos, who is recorded on a column of the Parthenon; he succeeded Ioannes 491 (in 819) and died on 1 December 841: CIG 9355. On the reading Ἀθηνῶν rather than Θηβῶν on the seal, see Laurent, Corpus V 1, p. 440, note.
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