Pothos imperial protospatharios and strategos of Hellas (ninth/tenth century)
Obverse
Patriarchal cross on three steps. Circular inscription along the circumference between a double border of dots.
ΚΕΟΗΘΗΤΣ..Λ
Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Obverse
Patriarchal cross on three steps. Circular inscription along the circumference between a double border of dots.
ΚΕΟΗΘΗΤΣ..Λ
Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Reverse
Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.
ΠΟΘ
ΑΣΠΘ
ΚˊΣΤΡΑΤ
ΕΛΛΑΔˊ
Πόθῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Ἑλλάδος
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.1274 |
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Diameter | 28.0 mm; field: 20.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 8.52a. |
Translation
Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Πόθῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Ἑλλάδος.
Lord, help your servant Pothos, 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)
- 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)
- Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
- Die byzantinische Armee im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Organisation der Tagmata (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
Line 2 (rev.): no abbreviation sign after Π. Line 3 (rev.): the letter Κ has its lower oblique bar twisted at the end, obviously to indicate the existence of an abbreviation (cf. no. 8.41 above). A strategos of Hellas named Pothos is mentioned (ca. 946) in the Life of St. Luke (ed. D. Sophianos [Athens, 1989], 199, cf. 51-52).