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Euphemianos patrikios, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Hellas (eighth/ninth century)

 
 

Obverse

Remains of a cruciform invocative monogram (type V); visible in the quarters: Σ|Λ. Wreath border.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει [τῷ] σ[ῷ δ]ούλ[ῳ]

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, top two lines missing. Wreath border.

ΣΠΑΘ
ΑΤ/ΕΛ
ΔΟΣ

Εὐφημιανῷ πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Ἑλλάδος

Obverse

Remains of a cruciform invocative monogram (type V); visible in the quarters: Σ|Λ. Wreath border.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει [τῷ] σ[ῷ δ]ούλ[ῳ]

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, top two lines missing. Wreath border.

ΣΠΑΘ
ΑΤ/ΕΛ
ΔΟΣ

Εὐφημιανῷ πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Ἑλλάδος

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.3127
Diameter 22.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 8.43(k).
Cf. Zacos-Veglery, no. 1884.

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

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Εὐφημιανῷ πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Ἑλλάδος.

Theotokos, help your servant Euphemianos patrikios, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Hellas.

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)
  • Du stratège de thème au duc: chronologie de l’évolution au cours du XIe siècle (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • Hellas und Thessalia (Open in Zotero)
  • Die byzantinische Armee im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Organisation der Tagmata (Open in Zotero)

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