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Theognostos imperial protospatharios and strategos of Samos (tenth century)

 
 

Obverse

Patriarchal cross (X on crossings) on four steps mounted on a ball. Fleurons on either side. Along the border of dots, circular inscription.

ΚΕΟΗΘΕΙΤΣ..ΟΥΛ,

Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθει τῷ σ[ῷ δ]ούλ(ῳ)

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΘΕΟ
ΓΝΟΣΤ,
.ΣΠΘ
ΣΤΡΤΙΓ
ΤΣΜ

Θεογνόστ(ῳ) β(ασιλικῷ) [(πρωτο)]σπαθ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) στρατιγ(ῷ) τ(ῆς) Σάμου

Obverse

Patriarchal cross (X on crossings) on four steps mounted on a ball. Fleurons on either side. Along the border of dots, circular inscription.

ΚΕΟΗΘΕΙΤΣ..ΟΥΛ,

Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθει τῷ σ[ῷ δ]ούλ(ῳ)

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΘΕΟ
ΓΝΟΣΤ,
.ΣΠΘ
ΣΤΡΤΙΓ
ΤΣΜ

Θεογνόστ(ῳ) β(ασιλικῷ) [(πρωτο)]σπαθ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) στρατιγ(ῷ) τ(ῆς) Σάμου

Accession number BZS.1947.2.147
Diameter 23.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 44.12. Cf. Another specimen, probably coming from the same boulloterion, is published by Schneider, in Athenische Mitteilungen 54 (1929) 102.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Θεογνόστῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ τῆς Σάμου.

Lord, help your servant Theognostos, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Samos.

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