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

 
 

Obverse

Remnants of a cruciform invocative monogram (type VIII); in the quarters: ΩΣΩ|ΛΩ. Wreath border.

Κύριε βοήθει [τ]ῷ σῷ [δ]ούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Wreath border.

ΥΦΙΜ
ΑΝΟΒ,ˊΑ,ˊΣ
ΑΘ,ˊΣΤΡΑ
ΤΙΓ,ˊΕΛΑ
ΟΣ

[Ε]ὐφιμ[ι]ανο βασιλικῷ πρωτοσ[π]αθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγ Ἑλά[δ]ος

Obverse

Remnants of a cruciform invocative monogram (type VIII); in the quarters: ΩΣΩ|ΛΩ. Wreath border.

Κύριε βοήθει [τ]ῷ σῷ [δ]ούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Wreath border.

ΥΦΙΜ
ΑΝΟΒ,ˊΑ,ˊΣ
ΑΘ,ˊΣΤΡΑ
ΤΙΓ,ˊΕΛΑ
ΟΣ

[Ε]ὐφιμ[ι]ανο βασιλικῷ πρωτοσ[π]αθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγ Ἑλά[δ]ος

Accession number BZS 1955.1.851
Diameter 25.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 8.44(p).
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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