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N. patrikios, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Hellas (eighth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (of indeterminate type); visible in the lower quarters: ΔΛ. Wreath border.

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει [τῷ σῷ] δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of at least four lines. Wreath border.

/.
ΣΤΡ...
ΔΣ

....ῳ πατ[ρ(ικίῳ)], β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπα(θαρίῳ) (καὶ) στρατ(ηγῷ) Ἑλ[λ]άδως

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (of indeterminate type); visible in the lower quarters: ΔΛ. Wreath border.

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει [τῷ σῷ] δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of at least four lines. Wreath border.

/.
ΣΤΡ...
ΔΣ

....ῳ πατ[ρ(ικίῳ)], β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπα(θαρίῳ) (καὶ) στρατ(ηγῷ) Ἑλ[λ]άδως

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.2463
Diameter 22.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 8.55b.

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

Translation

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ ....ῳ πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Ἑλλάδως.

Lord or Mother of God, help your servant ... patrikios, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Hellas.

Commentary

The reading of this seal is based on the somewhat better preserved counterpart from the same boulloterion (linked to this entry).

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 2: South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Peloponnese byzantin jusqu’en 1204 (Open in Zotero)
  • Du stratège de thème au duc: chronologie de l’évolution au cours du XIe siècle (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • Hellas und Thessalia (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
  • Die byzantinische Armee im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Organisation der Tagmata (Open in Zotero)