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Eustratios hypatos, vestes, and judge of Thrace and Macedonia (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Inscription of five lines preceded by an ornament. Border of dots.


ΥΠΑΤ
ΕΣΤΟΥ
ΤΑΣΓΡΑΦ,
ΕΥΣΤΡΑ
ΤΙΟΥ

ὑπάτου, βέστου τὰς γραφ(ὰς) Εὐστρατίου

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΚΥΡ
ΚΡΙΤΟΥ
ΘΡΑΚ,ΤΕ
ΜΑΚΕΔΟ
ΝΙΑΣ

κυρῶ κριτοῦ Θρᾴκ(ης) τε Μακεδονίας

Obverse

Inscription of five lines preceded by an ornament. Border of dots.


ΥΠΑΤ
ΕΣΤΟΥ
ΤΑΣΓΡΑΦ,
ΕΥΣΤΡΑ
ΤΙΟΥ

ὑπάτου, βέστου τὰς γραφ(ὰς) Εὐστρατίου

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΚΥΡ
ΚΡΙΤΟΥ
ΘΡΑΚ,ΤΕ
ΜΑΚΕΔΟ
ΝΙΑΣ

κυρῶ κριτοῦ Θρᾴκ(ης) τε Μακεδονίας

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.1241
Diameter 34.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 43.7.

Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

ὑπάτου, βέστου τὰς γραφὰς Εὐστρατίου κυρῶ κριτοῦ Θρᾴκης τε Μακεδονίας.

I validate the correspondence of Eustratios, hypatos, vestes, and judge of Thrace and Macedonia.

Commentary

Two correct twelve-syllable verses obtained by an unorthodox use of τε: see H. Hunger in SBS 2 (1990) 33. The order of the titles has been shifted about in order to fit the metre.

Bibliography

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