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Nikephoros imperial spatharokandidatos and strategos of Cherson (ninth/tenth century)

 
 

Obverse

Patriarchal cross on four steps. Circular inscription beginning at 12 o'clock between two borders of dots.

ΚΕΟΗΘΗ...Δ

Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines preceded by decoration. Border of dots.

··
ΝΙΚΗΦ
.ΣΠΘΚ
.ΣΤΡΤ,Γ,
ΧΕΡΣΝ,

Νικηφόρῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ καὶ στρατηγ Χερσῶνος

Obverse

Patriarchal cross on four steps. Circular inscription beginning at 12 o'clock between two borders of dots.

ΚΕΟΗΘΗ...Δ

Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines preceded by decoration. Border of dots.

··
ΝΙΚΗΦ
.ΣΠΘΚ
.ΣΤΡΤ,Γ,
ΧΕΡΣΝ,

Νικηφόρῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ καὶ στρατηγ Χερσῶνος

Accession number BZS.1958.106.2152
Diameter 26.0 mm; field: 18.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 82.19.
Alekseyenko, L'administration byzantine de Cherson, no. 33 (2) with a parallel. Cf. also ibid., no. 32, a similar seal from a different boulloterion but likely belonging to the same person.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νικηφόρῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Χερσῶνος.

Lord, help your servant Nikephoros imperial spatharokandidatos and strategos of Cherson.

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