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Constantine imperial protospatharios and strategos of Chaldia (tenth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cross potent on three steps, with fleurons up to the crossbar. A small X far below the crossbar. Circular inscription within concentric circles of dots:

+κεRοηθειτσδουλ

Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

+κον
σταντινο
Rασπαθα
ρSστρατι
γοχαλδι
ασ

Κονσταντίνο β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθαρ(ίῳ) (καὶ) στρατιγο Χαλδίας

Obverse

Cross potent on three steps, with fleurons up to the crossbar. A small X far below the crossbar. Circular inscription within concentric circles of dots:

+κεRοηθειτσδουλ

Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

+κον
σταντινο
Rασπαθα
ρSστρατι
γοχαλδι
ασ

Κονσταντίνο β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθαρ(ίῳ) (καὶ) στρατιγο Χαλδίας

Accession number BZS.1955.1.1413
Diameter 22.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 32.38b.

Listed in Bryer-Winfield, Pontos, 316.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Κονσταντίνο βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγο Χαλδίας.

Lord, help your servant Constantine, imperial protospatharios of Chaldia.

Commentary

The reading of this seal has been restored on the basis of its better preserved counterpart BZS.1958.106.2115 which comes from the same boulloterion. Both may well have come from the same owner as BZS.1955.1.1412.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 4: The East (Open in Zotero)
  • Βυζαντιακὰ μολυβδόβουλλα. Ἡ συλλογὴ Ἀναστασίου Κ. Π. Σταμούλη (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • The Byzantine Monuments and Topography of the Pontos (Open in Zotero)
  • De Thematibus (Open in Zotero)
  • Η Μικρά Ασία των θεμάτων. Ἐρευνες πάνω στην γεωγραφική φυσιογνωμία και προσωπογραφία των βυζαντινών θεμάτων της Μικράς Ασίας (Open in Zotero)