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Isaias imperial protospatharios and strategos of the Peloponnesos (ninth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΣΩ|ΔΛ.No visible border.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. No visible borders.

.ΗΣΑΙΑ
ΑΣΠΑΘΑ
.ΙΣΤΡΑ
Τ..ΠΕΛ.
ΝΗΣ

Ἠσαΐᾳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγ Πελοπονήσου

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΣΩ|ΔΛ.No visible border.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. No visible borders.

.ΗΣΑΙΑ
ΑΣΠΑΘΑ
.ΙΣΤΡΑ
Τ..ΠΕΛ.
ΝΗΣ

Ἠσαΐᾳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγ Πελοπονήσου

Accession number BZS.1958.106.4754
Diameter 30.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 22.26b.
Cf. similar seal from a different boulloterion, published by Mordtmann, RA 1877/1, 294 (=Sig., 179, note 5, no. 1; cf. Bon, Péloponnèse, 187, no. 6); another one (?) is preserved in the Hermitage Collection (M-623): I. Sokolova, in VizVrem 42 (1981) table III.

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.

Commentary

The reading of this seal has been aided by reference to its better preserved counterpart from the same boulloterion: BZS 1947.2.32.

Bibliography

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