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Niketas protospatharios and judge of the Thrakesioi (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Inscription of four lines, decoration below. Border of dots.

+κ̅εRο
ηθειτ
σλ
νι..τ,
– 

Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νι[κή]τ(ᾳ)

Reverse

Inscription of four lines preceded and followed by decoration. Border of dots.

– 
Ασπαθ,
Sκριτη
τνθρα
κησι,
– 

(πρωτο)σπαθ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) κριτῇ τῶν Θρᾳκησίω(ν)

Obverse

Inscription of four lines, decoration below. Border of dots.

+κ̅εRο
ηθειτ
σλ
νι..τ,
– 

Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νι[κή]τ(ᾳ)

Reverse

Inscription of four lines preceded and followed by decoration. Border of dots.

– 
Ασπαθ,
Sκριτη
τνθρα
κησι,
– 

(πρωτο)σπαθ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) κριτῇ τῶν Θρᾳκησίω(ν)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.1930
Diameter 22.0 mm; field: 13.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 2.21c.

Similar seal published in Zacos, Seals II, no. 1031; see also Sig., 253, no. 4 (different spelling).

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

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Νικήτᾳ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ κριτῇ τῶν Θρᾳκησίων.

Lord, help your servant Niketas, protospatharios and judge of the Thrakesioi.

Commentary

This seal, BZS.1951.31.5.994, and BZS.1958.106.2871 come from the same boulloterion.

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