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Demochares imperial spatharios and chartoularios of Hellas (tenth century)

 
 

Obverse

A cross potent on three steps, with pellets at the free ends of all bars. A circular inscription along the circumference within a border of dots:

ΚΕΟΗΘΕΙΤΣΔ....

Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δ[ούλῳ]

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΔΗΜ
ΟΧΡΙΣ
ΠΘΧ
.ΡΤΟΥΛ
ΕΛΛΔ

Δημοχάρι β(ασιλικῷ) σπαθ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) χ[α]ρτουλ(αρίῳ) Ἑλλάδ(ος)

Obverse

A cross potent on three steps, with pellets at the free ends of all bars. A circular inscription along the circumference within a border of dots:

ΚΕΟΗΘΕΙΤΣΔ....

Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δ[ούλῳ]

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΔΗΜ
ΟΧΡΙΣ
ΠΘΧ
.ΡΤΟΥΛ
ΕΛΛΔ

Δημοχάρι β(ασιλικῷ) σπαθ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) χ[α]ρτουλ(αρίῳ) Ἑλλάδ(ος)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.739
Diameter 19.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 8.4.

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

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Δημοχάρι βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ χαρτουλαρίῳ Ἑλλάδος.

Lord, help your servant Demochares, imperial spatharios and chartoularios of Hellas.

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