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Nicholas chartoularios and chrysoteles of the Thrakesioi (eleventh century)

 
 
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Obverse

Bust of St. Nicholas blessing with his right hand. Inscription in two columns: |ν|ι-κ|ο|λ, : Ὁ ἅ(γιος) Νικόλ(αος). Circular inscription along a border of dots:

...Rοηθιτσ....

[Κύριε] βοήθι τῷ σ[ῷ δούλῳ].

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Reverse

Inscription of five lines, decoration above, and, faintly visible, below. Border of dots.

– · –
νικο
.αχαρ
.λˋSτ̅
.ονθρ
ακισ
–  –

Νικο[λ]άῳ χαρ[τ]ουλ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) χρ(υσο)τ(ελεῖ) [τ]ον Θρᾳκισ(ίων).

Obverse

Bust of St. Nicholas blessing with his right hand. Inscription in two columns: |ν|ι-κ|ο|λ, : Ὁ ἅ(γιος) Νικόλ(αος). Circular inscription along a border of dots:

...Rοηθιτσ....

[Κύριε] βοήθι τῷ σ[ῷ δούλῳ].

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, decoration above, and, faintly visible, below. Border of dots.

– · –
νικο
.αχαρ
.λˋSτ̅
.ονθρ
ακισ
–  –

Νικο[λ]άῳ χαρ[τ]ουλ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) χρ(υσο)τ(ελεῖ) [τ]ον Θρᾳκισ(ίων).

Accession number BZS.1958.106.5160
Diameter 25.0 mm; field: 21.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 2.5.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθι τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νικολάῳ χαρτουλαρίῳ καὶ χρυσοτελεῖ τον Θρᾳκισίων.

Lord, help your servant Nicholas, chartoularios and chrysoteles of the Thrakesioi.

Commentary

The rarely found office of the chrysoteles appears in the sources around the year 1000 and refers to a tax collector. See BZS 1955.1.2235.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 3: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient (Open in Zotero)
  • Constantini Porphyrogeniti De cerimoniis aulae byzantinae (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Praetorians: An Administrative, Institutional, and Social Survey of the Opsikion and Tagmata, c. 580-900 (Open in Zotero)
  • Theophanis Chronographia (Open in Zotero)
  • L’histoire et la géographie de la région de Smyrne entre les deux occupations turques (1081-1317), particulièrement au XIIIe siècle (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • “Thrakien” und “Thrakesion” (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)