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Niketas imperial kandidatos and protonotarios of Thessalonica (ninth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΤΣ|ΔΛ. Wreath border.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Indeterminate border.

ΝΙΚΗΤ
ΚΝΔΙΔ/ Ν
.ΤΡΙΘΕΣ
ΣΛΟΝΙΚ/

Νικήτᾳ β(ασιλικῷ) κανδιδ(άτῳ) (καὶ) (πρωτο)ν[ο]ταρίῳ Θεσσαλονίκ(ης)

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΤΣ|ΔΛ. Wreath border.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Indeterminate border.

ΝΙΚΗΤ
ΚΝΔΙΔ/ Ν
.ΤΡΙΘΕΣ
ΣΛΟΝΙΚ/

Νικήτᾳ β(ασιλικῷ) κανδιδ(άτῳ) (καὶ) (πρωτο)ν[ο]ταρίῳ Θεσσαλονίκ(ης)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.229
Diameter 25.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 18.58. A second specimen, from the same boulloterion, was published by Zacos-Veglery, no. 2233.

Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νικήτᾳ βασιλικῷ κανδιδάτῳ καὶ πρωτονοταρίῳ Θεσσαλονίκης.

Mother of God, help your servant Niketas imperial kandidatos and protonotarios of Thessalonica.

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