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George protospatharios and strategos of Lykandos (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. George holding a spear and a shield. Traces of a vertical inscription: Ο|Α|.ΙΓ|Ε|Ο|ΡὉ ἅγιος Γεόργιος. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, decorations above and below. Border of dots.

.ι.γερ
.ασπαθ,
.στ.ατη
.ληκαν
δο.

Γεώρ[γ(ιος)] (πρωτο)σπαθ(άριος) [(καὶ)] στ[ρ]ατη[γ(ὸς)] Ληκανδο[ῦ]

Obverse

Bust of St. George holding a spear and a shield. Traces of a vertical inscription: Ο|Α|.ΙΓ|Ε|Ο|ΡὉ ἅγιος Γεόργιος. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, decorations above and below. Border of dots.

.ι.γερ
.ασπαθ,
.στ.ατη
.ληκαν
δο.

Γεώρ[γ(ιος)] (πρωτο)σπαθ(άριος) [(καὶ)] στ[ρ]ατη[γ(ὸς)] Ληκανδο[ῦ]

Accession number BZS.1958.106.1949
Diameter 28.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 53.6.

A parallel specimen from the same boulloterion is published in Zacos, Seals II, no. 476.

Translation

Γεώργιος πρωτοσπαθάριος καὶ στρατηγὸς Ληκανδοῦ.

George, protospatharios and strategos of Lykandos.

Commentary

The seal of a strategos of Lykandos, named George Ernesis (?) – or Eunesis, according to W. Seibt – and decorated by a similar bust of St. George, is published in Sig., 282.

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