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Eustratios (Romaios?) spatharokandidatos and kommerkiarios of Persthlavitza (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin holding Christ. Sigla: ΜΡΘ: Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

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

·
ΕΥΣΤΡ
ΣΠΑΘ,Κ,Δ.
ΚΟΜΕΡΚ.
ΠΕΡΣΘΛΑ
.ΑΣΤΟ
.Μ

Εὐστρατίῳ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ καὶ κομερκιαρίῳ Περσθλάβιτζας το ωμαίῳ (?)

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin holding Christ. Sigla: ΜΡΘ: Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Border of dots.

Reverse

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

·
ΕΥΣΤΡ
ΣΠΑΘ,Κ,Δ.
ΚΟΜΕΡΚ.
ΠΕΡΣΘΛΑ
.ΑΣΤΟ
.Μ

Εὐστρατίῳ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ καὶ κομερκιαρίῳ Περσθλάβιτζας το ωμαίῳ (?)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.1750
Diameter 23.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 78.1b.
Oikonomides, Presthlavitza, no. 5 (a-b).

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

Translation

Εὐστρατίῳ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ καὶ κομερκιαρίῳ Περσθλάβιτζας το Ῥωμαίῳ (?).

Eustratios Romaios (?), spatharokandidatos and kommerkiarios of Persthlavitza.

Commentary

This seal is from the same boulloterion as its parallel. See the commentary to that entry (BZS 1947.2.2128).

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 1: Italy, North of the Balkans, North of the Black Sea (Open in Zotero)
  • Presthlavitza, the Little Preslav (Open in Zotero)
  • Où se trouvait Théodoroupolis, nom consigné sur certains sceaux du Grand Preslav (Open in Zotero)