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Genesios (?) imperial protospatharios, asekretis and judge of the Peloponnesos (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St Nicholas offering a blessing and holding the book. Traces of an inscription: Ν|Κ|Λ: [ὁ ἅ(γιος)] Ν(ι)κ(ό)λ(αος). Faint lettering along the upper circumference, probably from a circular invocation but now indecipherable. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines, the final two letters between horizontal bars. Border of dots.

..ΝΕΣ,.
..ΣΠΑΘΑΡ.
..ΗΚΡΗΙ.
.ΡΗΤ,ΠΕΛΟ
ΠΟΝ.Η
ΣΟΥ

[Γε]νεσ(ίῳ) [β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)]σπαθαρ[ί(ῳ), ἀσ]ηκρῆτι[ς (καὶ) κ]ρητ(ῇ) Πελοπον[ν]ήσου

Obverse

Bust of St Nicholas offering a blessing and holding the book. Traces of an inscription: Ν|Κ|Λ: [ὁ ἅ(γιος)] Ν(ι)κ(ό)λ(αος). Faint lettering along the upper circumference, probably from a circular invocation but now indecipherable. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines, the final two letters between horizontal bars. Border of dots.

..ΝΕΣ,.
..ΣΠΑΘΑΡ.
..ΗΚΡΗΙ.
.ΡΗΤ,ΠΕΛΟ
ΠΟΝ.Η
ΣΟΥ

[Γε]νεσ(ίῳ) [β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)]σπαθαρ[ί(ῳ), ἀσ]ηκρῆτι[ς (καὶ) κ]ρητ(ῇ) Πελοπον[ν]ήσου

Accession number BZS.1947.2.198
Diameter 29.0 mm; field: 22.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 22.9.

Translation

Γενεσίῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ, ἀσηκρῆτις καὶ κρητῇ Πελοποννήσου.

Genesios, imperial protospatharios asekretis and judge of the Peloponnesos.

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