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Niketas notarios and abydikos of Thessalonica (eighth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: .Σ|ΔΛ. No visible border.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. No visible border.


ΝΙΚΗΤ
ΝΟΤΑΡΙΩ
ΑΒΥΔΙΚ
ΩΘΕΣΣΑ
.ΟΝ

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νικήτ νοταρίῳ καὶ ἀβυδικῷ Θεσσαλονίκης

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: .Σ|ΔΛ. No visible border.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. No visible border.


ΝΙΚΗΤ
ΝΟΤΑΡΙΩ
ΑΒΥΔΙΚ
ΩΘΕΣΣΑ
.ΟΝ

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νικήτ νοταρίῳ καὶ ἀβυδικῷ Θεσσαλονίκης

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.1776
Diameter 24.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 18.8.
Zacos-Veglery, no. 2249.

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

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νικήτᾳ νοταρίῳ καὶ ἀβυδικῷ Θεσσαλονίκης.

Theotokos, help your servant Niketas notarios and abydikos of Thessalonica.

Commentary

The epigraphy is very archaic. Cf. Dated Seals, nos. 31, 36, 42; no parallels in the ninth century.

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