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N. protospatharios and strategos of the Boukellarioi (ninth/tenth century)

 
 

Obverse

Patriarchal cross on three steps. Remains of a circular inscription. Indeterminate border.

κεRοη

Κ(ύρι)ε βοή[θει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ]

Reverse

Inscription for which parts of four lines survive. Border of dots.

α/σπα
τρατιγ,
κ...
αρ/

.... (πρωτο)σπα[θ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) σ]τρατιγ(ῷ) [Β]ουκ[ελλ]αρ(ίων)

Obverse

Patriarchal cross on three steps. Remains of a circular inscription. Indeterminate border.

κεRοη

Κ(ύρι)ε βοή[θει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ]

Reverse

Inscription for which parts of four lines survive. Border of dots.

α/σπα
τρατιγ,
κ...
αρ/

.... (πρωτο)σπα[θ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) σ]τρατιγ(ῷ) [Β]ουκ[ελλ]αρ(ίων)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.2889
Diameter 15.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 1.37.

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

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ .... πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ Βουκελλαρίων.

Lord, help your servant .... protospatharios and strategos of the Boukellarioi.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 4: The East (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Praetorians: An Administrative, Institutional, and Social Survey of the Opsikion and Tagmata, c. 580-900 (Open in Zotero)
  • Galatien und Lykaonien (Open in Zotero)
  • De Thematibus (Open in Zotero)
  • Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Open in Zotero)
  • Paphlagonien und Honorias (Open in Zotero)
  • Η Μικρά Ασία των θεμάτων. Ἐρευνες πάνω στην γεωγραφική φυσιογνωμία και προσωπογραφία των βυζαντινών θεμάτων της Μικράς Ασίας (Open in Zotero)