Isaias imperial protospatharios and strategos of the Peloponnesos (ninth century)
Obverse
Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: .ΩΣΩ|ΔΛ.No visible border.
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Obverse
Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: .ΩΣΩ|ΔΛ.No visible border.
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Reverse
Inscription of five lines. No visible borders.
.ΗΣΑΙΑ
ΑΣΠΑΘΑ
.ΙΣΤΡΑ
Τ..ΠΕΛ.
ΝΗΣ
Ἠσαΐᾳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ Πελοπονήσου
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.4754 |
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Diameter | 30.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 22.26b. |
Translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἠσαΐᾳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ Πελοπονήσου.
Mother of God, help your servant Isaias imperial protospatharios and strategos 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)
- Plombs byzantins de la Grèce et du Péleponnèse (Open in Zotero)
- Sigillographie de l’Empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
- Le Peloponnese byzantin jusqu’en 1204 (Open in Zotero)
- La Morée franque: Recherches historiques, topographiques et archéologiques sur la principauté d’Achaïe (1205-1430) (Open in Zotero)
- Die Skleroi: Eine prosopographisch-sigillographische Studie (Open in Zotero)
- Theophanis Chronographia (Open in Zotero)
- Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
- 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)
Commentary
The reading of this seal has been aided by reference to its better preserved counterpart from the same boulloterion: BZS 1947.2.32.