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Nicholas Areobindenos, spatharokandidatos and protonotarios of Chaldia (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of St. Nicholas blessing with his right hand and holding a book in his left hand. Vertical inscription on either side: |ν|ι-κ|ο|λ, : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Νικόλ(αος). Circular inscription within a border of dots:

+κε........σδλ,

Κ(ύρι)ε [βοήθει τῷ] σῷ δούλ(ῳ)

Reverse

Inscription of six lines, a decoration above. Border of dots.


+νικολ
σπαθαρο
κ,,Sα̅νο
τ,χαλδˋα
ταρεο
R,δην,

Νικολ(άῳ) σπαθαροκ(αν)δ(ι)δ(άτῳ) (καὶ) (πρωτο)νοτ(αρίῳ) Χαλδ(ί)α(ς) τῷ Ἀρεοβ(ιν)δην(ῷ)

Obverse

Bust of St. Nicholas blessing with his right hand and holding a book in his left hand. Vertical inscription on either side: |ν|ι-κ|ο|λ, : ὁ ἅ(γιος) Νικόλ(αος). Circular inscription within a border of dots:

+κε........σδλ,

Κ(ύρι)ε [βοήθει τῷ] σῷ δούλ(ῳ)

Reverse

Inscription of six lines, a decoration above. Border of dots.


+νικολ
σπαθαρο
κ,,Sα̅νο
τ,χαλδˋα
ταρεο
R,δην,

Νικολ(άῳ) σπαθαροκ(αν)δ(ι)δ(άτῳ) (καὶ) (πρωτο)νοτ(αρίῳ) Χαλδ(ί)α(ς) τῷ Ἀρεοβ(ιν)δην(ῷ)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.1426
Diameter 28.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 32.35b. A similar seal, seemingly from a different boulloterion, is published in Sig., 290, no. 3.

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

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νικολάῳ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ καὶ πρωτονοταρίῳ Χαλδίας τῷ Ἀρεοβινδηνῷ.

Lord, help your servant Nicholas Areobindenos, spatharokandidatos and protonotarios of Chaldia.

Commentary

This is one of three seals from the same boulloterion (see the two linked to this entry). See the commentary to BZS 1958.106.1073.

Bibliography

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  • De Thematibus (Open in Zotero)
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