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Kyriakos apo hypaton and genikos logothetes of the apotheke of [Phrygia] Kapatiane and Lydia (696/697)

 
 

Obverse

The emperor (Leontios) standing, holding the globus cruciger in his right hand. On either side the indiction year: . Circular inscription:

..ριακουαπουπα...

[Κυ]ριακοῦ απὸ ὑπά[των]

Reverse

Inscription of six lines, top line effaced. Indeterminate border.

...
κουλογ
θετπ
θηκησκ
τινησ
λυισ

(καὶ) γενι]κοῦ λογ[ο]θέτου ἀπ[ο]θήκης Κα[π]ατιανῆς [(καὶ)] Λυδίας.

Obverse

The emperor (Leontios) standing, holding the globus cruciger in his right hand. On either side the indiction year: . Circular inscription:

..ριακουαπουπα...

[Κυ]ριακοῦ απὸ ὑπά[των]

Reverse

Inscription of six lines, top line effaced. Indeterminate border.

...
κουλογ
θετπ
θηκησκ
τινησ
λυισ

(καὶ) γενι]κοῦ λογ[ο]θέτου ἀπ[ο]θήκης Κα[π]ατιανῆς [(καὶ)] Λυδίας.

Accession number BZS.1955.1.4378
Diameter 30.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 24.6.

Zacos-Veglery, no. 195.

Translation

Ἰνδικτιὼν ι'. Κυριακοῦ απὸ ὑπάτων καὶ γενικοῦ λογοθέτου ἀποθήκης Καπατιανῆς καὶ Λυδίας.

Indiction 10. (Seal of) Kyriakos, apo hypaton and genikos logothetes of the apotheke of Kapatiane and Lydia.

Commentary

Zacos-Veglery have rightly identified the emperor as Leontios and dated the seal to the indiction year 696/697. We take it that Kyriakos farmed out the collection of taxes within the boundaries of the apotheke mentioned on his seal: cf. Oikonomides, Kommerkiarioi, 46.

The Roman province of Lydia kept its name and its administrative prerogative until the ninth century, in spite of the fact that theme of the Thrakesion was then well in existence.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 3: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Silk Trade and Production in Byzantium from the Sixth to the Ninth Century: The Seals of Kommerkiarioi (Open in Zotero)