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Niketas kouboukleisios and episkeptites (tenth/eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. Agathonikos, holding the martyr's cross in his left hand. Inscription visible at left; unclear at right: Ο|Α|Γ: ὁ ἅγ(ιος) ... . Circular inscription inside linear border.

....ΗΘΗΤΩΣ.....

[Κ(ύρι)ε βο]ήθη τῷ σ[ῷ δο(ύλῳ)]

Reverse

Inscription in five lines with decoration above. Indeterminate border.


.ΝΗΚ,
..Κ
ΚΛΙΣ,Ε
ΠΗΣΚΕ
ΠΤΙΤ
  

Νηκ(ή)[τα] κουβουκλισ(ίῳ) (καὶ) ἐπησκεπτίτ(ῃ)

Obverse

Bust of St. Agathonikos, holding the martyr's cross in his left hand. Inscription visible at left; unclear at right: Ο|Α|Γ: ὁ ἅγ(ιος) ... . Circular inscription inside linear border.

....ΗΘΗΤΩΣ.....

[Κ(ύρι)ε βο]ήθη τῷ σ[ῷ δο(ύλῳ)]

Reverse

Inscription in five lines with decoration above. Indeterminate border.


.ΝΗΚ,
..Κ
ΚΛΙΣ,Ε
ΠΗΣΚΕ
ΠΤΙΤ
  

Νηκ(ή)[τα] κουβουκλισ(ίῳ) (καὶ) ἐπησκεπτίτ(ῃ)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.907
Diameter 21.0 mm; field: 18.0 mm
Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νηκήτα κουβουκλισίῳ καὶ ἐπησκεπτίτῃ.

Lord, help your servant Niketas, kouboukleisios and episkeptites.