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N., imperial protospatharios and domestikos of the Optimatoi (tenth/eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. Theodore holding a spear. Inscription in two columns: |ΘΕ|Ο: Ὁ ἅ(γιος) Θεό[δωρος]. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines preceded and followed by an uncertain decoration. Border of dots.

.
.ΥΝ
ΑΣΑΣ
ΔΟΜ
Κ,ΤΟΝ
ΤΙΜˊ
.

...υν... [β]ασ(ιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σ[παθ(αρίῳ)] (καὶ) δομ[εστί]κ(ῳ) τον [Ὀπ]τιμ(άτων)

Obverse

Bust of St. Theodore holding a spear. Inscription in two columns: |ΘΕ|Ο: Ὁ ἅ(γιος) Θεό[δωρος]. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines preceded and followed by an uncertain decoration. Border of dots.

.
.ΥΝ
ΑΣΑΣ
ΔΟΜ
Κ,ΤΟΝ
ΤΙΜˊ
.

...υν... [β]ασ(ιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σ[παθ(αρίῳ)] (καὶ) δομ[εστί]κ(ῳ) τον [Ὀπ]τιμ(άτων)

Accession number BZS.1958.106.1746
Diameter 30.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 71.18.

Translation

...υν... βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ δομεστίκῳ τον Ὀπτιμάτων.

N., imperial protospatharios and domestikos of the Optimatoi.

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)
  • Documents de sigillographie byzantine: La collection C. Orghidan (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Praetorians: An Administrative, Institutional, and Social Survey of the Opsikion and Tagmata, c. 580-900 (Open in Zotero)
  • Die byzantinische Armee im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Organisation der Tagmata (Open in Zotero)