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N., strategos of Macedonia (eighth/ninth century)

 
 

Obverse

Remains of a cruciform invocative monogram. In the quarters: ..Σ|ΔΛ. Wreath border.

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Three remaining inscribed lines. No visible border.

ΒΣ
ΘΣΤΗ
ΜΚΕΔ

......ῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Μακεδονίας

Obverse

Remains of a cruciform invocative monogram. In the quarters: ..Σ|ΔΛ. Wreath border.

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Three remaining inscribed lines. No visible border.

ΒΣ
ΘΣΤΗ
ΜΚΕΔ

......ῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Μακεδονίας

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.1820
Diameter 24.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 43.36.

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

Translation

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ ......ῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Μακεδονίας.

Lord or Theotokos, help your servant N., imperial spatharios and strategos of Macedonia.

Bibliography

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