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Euphemianos imperial protospatharios and strategos of Hellas (eighth/ninth century)

 
 

Obverse

Partially preserved cruciform invocative monogram (type VIII); in the quarters: ΤΩΣΩ|ΔΛΩ. Wreath border.

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, bottom line missing. Wreath border.

ΕΥΦ
ΙΑΝΟΒ,ˊΑ,ˊ
ΑΘ,ˊΣΤΡ
ΤΙΓ,ˊΕΛΑ

Εὐφ[ιμ]ιανο βασιλικῷ πρωτο[σπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρ[α]τιγ Ἑλά[δος]

Obverse

Partially preserved cruciform invocative monogram (type VIII); in the quarters: ΤΩΣΩ|ΔΛΩ. Wreath border.

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, bottom line missing. Wreath border.

ΕΥΦ
ΙΑΝΟΒ,ˊΑ,ˊ
ΑΘ,ˊΣΤΡ
ΤΙΓ,ˊΕΛΑ

Εὐφ[ιμ]ιανο βασιλικῷ πρωτο[σπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρ[α]τιγ Ἑλά[δος]

Accession number BZS 1955.1.848
Diameter 23.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 8.44(m).
Cf. Zacos-Veglery, no. 1886.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Εὐφιμιανο βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ Ἑλάδος.

Lord, help your servant Euphemianos imperial protospatharios and strategos of Hellas.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 2: South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Peloponnese byzantin jusqu’en 1204 (Open in Zotero)
  • Du stratège de thème au duc: chronologie de l’évolution au cours du XIe siècle (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • Hellas und Thessalia (Open in Zotero)
  • Die byzantinische Armee im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Organisation der Tagmata (Open in Zotero)

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