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Eustathios Katapoulos (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. Demetrios holding a spear over his right shoulder and a shield on his left arm. Sigla: |Δ|ΗΜ|Η|Τ, : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Δημήτ(ριος). Indeterminate border.

Reverse

Inscription in four lines. Indeterminate border.

ΚΕ̅,Θ,
ΕΥΣΤΑΘ,
ΤΟ.ΑΤΟ
ΠΛΟ

Κ(ύρι)ε β(οή)θ(ει) Εὐσταθ(ίῳ) το [Κ]αταπούλo

Obverse

Bust of St. Demetrios holding a spear over his right shoulder and a shield on his left arm. Sigla: |Δ|ΗΜ|Η|Τ, : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Δημήτ(ριος). Indeterminate border.

Reverse

Inscription in four lines. Indeterminate border.

ΚΕ̅,Θ,
ΕΥΣΤΑΘ,
ΤΟ.ΑΤΟ
ΠΛΟ

Κ(ύρι)ε β(οή)θ(ει) Εὐσταθ(ίῳ) το [Κ]αταπούλo

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.373
Diameter 20.0 mm
Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει Εὐσταθίῳ το Καταπούλo.

Lord, help Eustathios Katapoulos.

Commentary

The reading of the name on this seal is provisional and cannot be established with certainty until a better preserved parallel becomes known.