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Constantine imperial spatharios and protonotarios of the Peloponnesos (ninth/tenth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cross potent on three steps. Circular inscription along a border of dots.

ΚΕΟΗΘΙΤ....Λˊ

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλ

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. No visible border.

ΚΝ
ΣΤΑΝΤΗ
ΝˋΣΠΑ,
Αˊ
ΝΟΤ,ΠΕ

ΛΠΟΝ
ΙΣ

Κωνσταντήνῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ πρωτονοταρίῳ Πελωπονίσου

Obverse

Cross potent on three steps. Circular inscription along a border of dots.

ΚΕΟΗΘΙΤ....Λˊ

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλ

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. No visible border.

ΚΝ
ΣΤΑΝΤΗ
ΝˋΣΠΑ,
Αˊ
ΝΟΤ,ΠΕ

ΛΠΟΝ
ΙΣ

Κωνσταντήνῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ πρωτονοταρίῳ Πελωπονίσου

Accession number BZS.1958.106.2693
Diameter 19.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 22.17.
Cf. similar seal (possibly from the same boulloterion) described (but not illustrated) by Šandrovskaja, Sfragistika, no. 697.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Κωνσταντήνῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ πρωτονοταρίῳ Πελωπονίσου.

Lord, help your servant Constantine, imperial spatharios and protonotarios of the Peloponnesos.

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)
  • Sfragistika (Open in Zotero)
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  • Theophanis Chronographia (Open in Zotero)
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  • Realities of Byzantine Provincial Government: Hellas and Peloponnesos, 1180-1205 (Open in Zotero)
  • Die byzantinische Armee im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Organisation der Tagmata (Open in Zotero)