Niketas hypatos and epoptes of the Peloponnesos (eighth/ninth century)
Obverse
Cruciform monogram (of indeterminate type): in the quarters: ΤΣ|ΔΛ. Wreath border.
Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Obverse
Cruciform monogram (of indeterminate type): in the quarters: ΤΣ|ΔΛ. Wreath border.
Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Reverse
Inscription of four lines. Wreath border.
ΝΗΚΙΤ
.ΠΤ
ΕΠΟΠΤ
ΤΙΣΠΕ
Νηκίτᾳ [ὑ]πάτῳ (καὶ) ἐπόπτῳ τῖς Πε[λ(οποννήσου)]
Accession number | BZS.1947.2.587 |
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Diameter | 27.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 22.8. Zacos-Veglery, no. 3155 (without recognizing the existence of a place name). |
Translation
Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νηκίτᾳ ὑπάτῳ καὶ ἐπόπτῳ τῖς Πελοποννήσου.
Lord or Mother of God, help your servant Niketas, hypatos and epoptes of the Peloponnesos.
Bibliography
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
- Die Skleroi: Eine prosopographisch-sigillographische Studie (Open in Zotero)
- Theophanis Chronographia (Open in Zotero)
- Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
- Die byzantinische Armee im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Organisation der Tagmata (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
The wreath borders seem to have been added afterwards. Line 3 (rev.): the word ἐπόπτης is mistakenly treated as a noun of the second declension.