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Constantine Promoundenos, magistros, judge of the Velum and of the Anatolikoi (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

ΘΕΙ
ΔΟΥΛ
ΝΣΤΑ
ΤΙΝΜΑ
ΓΙΣΤΡ

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Κωνσταντίνῳ μαγίστρ

Reverse

Inscription of six lines preceded by a decoration. Border of dots.

ΗΛ
ΝΑΝ
ΟΛΙΚΝ
ΠΡΟΜ
ΔΗΝ

κριτῇ τοῦ βήλου καὶ τῶν Ἀνατολικῶν τῷ Προμουνδηνῷ

Obverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

ΘΕΙ
ΔΟΥΛ
ΝΣΤΑ
ΤΙΝΜΑ
ΓΙΣΤΡ

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Κωνσταντίνῳ μαγίστρ

Reverse

Inscription of six lines preceded by a decoration. Border of dots.

ΗΛ
ΝΑΝ
ΟΛΙΚΝ
ΠΡΟΜ
ΔΗΝ

κριτῇ τοῦ βήλου καὶ τῶν Ἀνατολικῶν τῷ Προμουνδηνῷ

Accession number BZS.1958.106.5665
Diameter 18.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 86.25c.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Κωνσταντίνῳ μαγίστρῳ, κριτῇ τοῦ βήλου καὶ τῶν Ἀνατολικῶν τῷ Προμουνδηνῷ.

Lord, help your servant Constantine Promoundenos, magistros, judge of the Velum and of the Anatolikoi.

Commentary

This person may well be the Constantine Promoundenos attested on two seals in the Hermitage (see Šandrovskaja, Sfragistika, nos. 712, 713). The first proclaims him magistros, vestes, judge of the Velum and of the Thrkesioi; the second, vestarches, judge of the Velum and of the Armeniakoi. See also Seibt, Bleisiegel, 303, note 10, where he notes another seal of Constantine Promoundenos, βεστάρχης, κριτὴς τοῦ βήλου καὶ τῶν Ἀνατολικῶν. A Constantine Promoundenos was hypatos and imperial notarios of the sakelle in 1088 (Patmos I, no. 49B, line 291).

Bibliography

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