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N. imperial protospatharios and strategos of Thessalonike (ninth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (indeterminate type); in the quarters: ...Λ. No visible border.

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει [τ]ῷ [σῷ] δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Indeterminate border.

Ο..
ΣΠ
ΣΤΡΤΙΓΘΕΣ
ΛΟΝΙΚ

..ο.. β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπα(θαρίῳ) (καὶ) στρατιγ(ῷ) Θεσαλονίκ(ης)

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (indeterminate type); in the quarters: ...Λ. No visible border.

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει [τ]ῷ [σῷ] δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Indeterminate border.

Ο..
ΣΠ
ΣΤΡΤΙΓΘΕΣ
ΛΟΝΙΚ

..ο.. β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπα(θαρίῳ) (καὶ) στρατιγ(ῷ) Θεσαλονίκ(ης)

Accession number BZS.1947.2.165
Diameter 30.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 18.77.

Translation

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ ..ο.. βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ Θεσαλονίκης.

Lord or Theotokos, help your servant N., imperial protospatharios and strategos of Thessalonica.

Bibliography

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