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Theod(otos/oulos/osios?) patrikios and strategos of Sicily (eighth/ninth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: .Σ|ΔΛ. No visible border.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription. No visible border.

.ΟΔΟ.
.ΠΤΡΙ
Κ/ΣΤΡ
.ΓΣΙΚ
.....

Θεοδότῳ (?) πατρικίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Σικελίας

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: .Σ|ΔΛ. No visible border.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription. No visible border.

.ΟΔΟ.
.ΠΤΡΙ
Κ/ΣΤΡ
.ΓΣΙΚ
.....

Θεοδότῳ (?) πατρικίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Σικελίας

Accession number BZS.1958.106.2282
Diameter 24.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 5.28.

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Θεοδότῳ (?) πατρικίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Σικελίας.

Theotokos, help your servant Theodotos (?) patrikios and strategos of Sicily.

Commentary

The reconstruction of the name is uncertain: it could just as well be Θεοδοσίῳ or Θεοδούλῳ. But we know of a patrikios Theodotos who was killedi n 830/1, when Mineo fell to the Arabs (Chronicle of Cambridge, in A. Vasiliev, Byzance et les Arabes I [Brussels, 1935], 345, cf. 128).

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