Skip to Content

Stephanos apo hypaton, patrikios, stratiotikos logothetes and general kommerkiarios of the apotheke of Pamphlagonia (659-668)

 
 

Obverse

In the upper field, bust of Constans II on the left, bearded, wearing a helmet and chlamys and holding a globus cruciger, and Constantine IV on the right, beardless (it seems), wearing a chlamys and crown and holding a smaller globus cruciger. In the lower field, inscription of four lines. No visible border.

στεφαναππ
ατονπατρικι
τρατιτικ.
...

Στεφάνου ἀπὸ ὑπατον, πατρικίου, [σ]τρατιωτικ[οῦ]

Reverse

In the upper field, bust of Herakleios on the left wearing a crown and chlamys and holding a globus cruciger, and Tiberios on the right wearing a crown and chlamys and holding a globus cruciger. In the lower field, inscription of four lines. No visible border.

θετκ.ιγενικ
κμμερικιαρι

απουικισπα
...γον..

[λογο]θέτου κ[α]ὶ γενικοῦ κωμμερκιαρίου ἀποθίκις Πα[φλα]γον[ίας]

Obverse

In the upper field, bust of Constans II on the left, bearded, wearing a helmet and chlamys and holding a globus cruciger, and Constantine IV on the right, beardless (it seems), wearing a chlamys and crown and holding a smaller globus cruciger. In the lower field, inscription of four lines. No visible border.

στεφαναππ
ατονπατρικι
τρατιτικ.
...

Στεφάνου ἀπὸ ὑπατον, πατρικίου, [σ]τρατιωτικ[οῦ]

Reverse

In the upper field, bust of Herakleios on the left wearing a crown and chlamys and holding a globus cruciger, and Tiberios on the right wearing a crown and chlamys and holding a globus cruciger. In the lower field, inscription of four lines. No visible border.

θετκ.ιγενικ
κμμερικιαρι

απουικισπα
...γον..

[λογο]θέτου κ[α]ὶ γενικοῦ κωμμερκιαρίου ἀποθίκις Πα[φλα]γον[ίας]

Accession number BZS.1955.1.4383
Diameter 30.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 11.20.

Zacos-Veglery, no. 144.

Translation

Στεφάνου ἀπὸ ὑπατον, πατρικίου, στρατιωτικοῦ λογοθέτου καὶ γενικοῦ κωμμερκιαρίου ἀποθίκις Παφλαγονίας.

(Seal of) Stephanos apo hypaton, patrikios, stratiotikos logothetes and general kommerkiarios of the apotheke of Paphlagonia.

Commentary

The date is provided by the identification of the emperors, whose portraits are known from coins. The present specimen must be placed late in the period 659-668 because (a) Stephanos had in the meantime added the title apo hypaton to that of patrikios (career outlined by Zacos-Veglery, 145, table 1) and (b) because emperor Constans is represented wearing a helmet, a headpiece that appears on coins usually dated after 663 (Grierson, Catalogue II/2, 434).

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 4: The East (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantinische Bleisiegel in Berlin II (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • De Thematibus (Open in Zotero)
  • Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Open in Zotero)
  • Paphlagonien und Honorias (Open in Zotero)
  • Η Μικρά Ασία των θεμάτων. Ἐρευνες πάνω στην γεωγραφική φυσιογνωμία και προσωπογραφία των βυζαντινών θεμάτων της Μικράς Ασίας (Open in Zotero)
  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, Vol. 2, Phocas to Theodosius III (602–717) (Open in Zotero)