Kosmas dioiketes of Euboia (eighth century)
Obverse
Cruciform invocative monogram (type VIII); in the quarters: ΤΩΔ|ΛΩΣ. Wreath border.
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ δούλῳ σου
Obverse
Cruciform invocative monogram (type VIII); in the quarters: ΤΩΔ|ΛΩΣ. Wreath border.
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ δούλῳ σου
Reverse
Inscription of three lines with decoration below (and above?). Indeterminate border.
ΚΟΣΜΑ
ΔΙΟΙΚ/
ΕΥΒΥΗΣ
Κοσμᾷ διοικητῇ Εὐβύης
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.1801 |
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Diameter | 25.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 13.1. |
Translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ δούλῳ σου Κοσμᾷ διοικητῇ Εὐβύης.
Lord, help your servant Kosmas dioiketes of Euboia.
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)
- Grammatik der byzantinischen Chroniken (Open in Zotero)
- Hellas und Thessalia (Open in Zotero)
- Negroponte: Untersuchungen zur Topographie und Siedlungsgeschichte der Insel Euboia während der Zeit der Venezianerherrschaft (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
Note the Ionic ending -ης. This grammatical form is used in many Byzantine texts (Psaltes, Grammatik, 143). Zacos-Veglery (no. 2078b) have published seals of the same individual but from a different boulloterion. Cf. DO Seals 2, no. 8.6.
The island of Euboia, lying off the northeast coast of Boeotia, retained its ancient name in the Middle Ages; it also went by the name of its capital, Euripos. See ODB II, 736-37; Koder-Hild, Hellas, 46; and Koder, Negroponte, 63.