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Theodoulos patrikios and strategos of Sicily (eighth century)

 
 

Obverse

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

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. No visible border.

ΘΕΟΔ
ΛΠ
ΡΙΚΙΚ/Σ
ΡΤΙΓ
ΚΕΛΙ

Θεοδούλῳ πατρικίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ Σικελίας

Obverse

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

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. No visible border.

ΘΕΟΔ
ΛΠ
ΡΙΚΙΚ/Σ
ΡΤΙΓ
ΚΕΛΙ

Θεοδούλῳ πατρικίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ Σικελίας

Accession number BZS.1958.106.2697
Diameter 28.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 5.29c.
Zacos-Veglery, no. 2489b.

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Θεοδούλῳ πατρικίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ Σικελίας.

Theotokos, help your servant Thedoulos patrikios and strategos of Sicily.

Commentary

This specimen comes from a different more "provincial" boulloterion than BZS.1955.1.1229 and BZS.1955.1.1230, although it contains the same legend.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 1: Italy, North of the Balkans, North of the Black Sea (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Storia della Sicilia, Vol. 3, La Sicilia fra Roma e Bisanzio (Open in Zotero)
  • L’amministrazione del tema de Sicilia (Open in Zotero)
  • La Sicile byzantine: État de recherches (Open in Zotero)
  • Une liste arabe des stratèges du thème de Sicile (Open in Zotero)
  • Une source peu étudiée de l’histoire de la Sicile au haut Moyen-Age: La sigillographie byzantine (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
  • Theophanes Continuatus, Ioannes Cameniata, Symeon Magister, Georgius Monachus (Open in Zotero)