Isaias imperial protospatharios and strategos of the Peloponnesos (ninth century)
Obverse
Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΤΣ|Λ. No visible border.
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ [δ]ούλῳ
Obverse
Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΤΣ|Λ. No visible border.
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ [δ]ούλῳ
Reverse
Inscription of five lines. No visible borders.
ΗΣΑΙΑ
ΒΑΣΠΑΘΑ
.ΙΣΤΡΑ
ΤΙΓΠΕ.
ΠΟΝΗ
Ἠσαΐᾳ β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθα[ρ]ίῳ (καὶ) στρατιγ(ῷ) Πε[λο]πονή[σ(ου)]
Accession number | BZS.1947.2.132 |
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Diameter | 35.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 22.26a. 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 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.
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