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Constantine Drosinos, kouboukleisios (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of a saint (perhaps the saint-martyr Eustratios?), with features unclear. Indeterminate border.

Reverse

Inscription in five lines. Border of dots. 

ΚΕ,Θ
.ΩΝΚ.
.ΛΗΣΗΟ
ΤΟΔΡΟ
ΣΗ.

Κ(ύρι)ε β(οή)θ(ει) [Κ]ων(σταντίνῳ) κουβ[ουκ]λησήο τὸ Δροσή[νῳ]

Obverse

Bust of a saint (perhaps the saint-martyr Eustratios?), with features unclear. Indeterminate border.

Reverse

Inscription in five lines. Border of dots. 

ΚΕ,Θ
.ΩΝΚ.
.ΛΗΣΗΟ
ΤΟΔΡΟ
ΣΗ.

Κ(ύρι)ε β(οή)θ(ει) [Κ]ων(σταντίνῳ) κουβ[ουκ]λησήο τὸ Δροσή[νῳ]

Accession number BZS.1947.2.1134
Diameter 20.0 mm
Previous Editions

Cf. Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 191; see W. Seibt's review in Byzantinoslavica 35 (1974). See also PBW: Konstantinos 20224.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει Κωνσταντίνῳ κουβουκλησήο το Δροσήνῳ.

Lord, help Constantine Drosinos, kouboukleisios. 

Commentary

In his unpublished catalogue of the Shaw collection, Laurent identifies the obverse saint as Christ, with a nimbus cruciger, which does not seem to be the case; in the parallel seal (that he does not identify as a parallel, reading it as Constantine Drosos, corrected by Seibt to Drosinos in his review), Laurent identifies the saint as holding a martyr's cross, and sees the remains of epigraphy indicating that it is St. Eustratios. 

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