Niketas protospatharios and judge of the Thrakesioi (eleventh century)
Obverse
Inscription of four lines, decoration below. Border of dots.
ΚΕ
ΗΘΕΙΤ
Λ
ΚΗΤ,
Κ(ύρι)ε β[ο]ήθει τῷ [σ]ῷ δούλῳ [Νι]κήτᾳ
Obverse
Inscription of four lines, decoration below. Border of dots.
ΚΕ
ΗΘΕΙΤ
Λ
ΚΗΤ,
Κ(ύρι)ε β[ο]ήθει τῷ [σ]ῷ δούλῳ [Νι]κήτᾳ
Reverse
Inscription of four lines preceded and followed by decoration. Border of dots.
ΠΑΘ,
ϗΚΡΙΤΗ
ΤΝΘΡ.
ΚΗΣΙ.
[(πρωτο)σ]παθ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) κριτῇ τῶν Θρ[ᾳ]κησί[ω(ν)]
Accession number | BZS.1951.31.5.994 |
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Diameter | 18.0 mm; field: 13.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 3, no. 2.21b. 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.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 3: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient (Open in Zotero)
- Constantini Porphyrogeniti De cerimoniis aulae byzantinae (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Praetorians: An Administrative, Institutional, and Social Survey of the Opsikion and Tagmata, c. 580-900 (Open in Zotero)
- Theophanis Chronographia (Open in Zotero)
- L’histoire et la géographie de la région de Smyrne entre les deux occupations turques (1081-1317), particulièrement au XIIIe siècle (Open in Zotero)
- Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
- “Thrakien” und “Thrakesion” (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (Open in Zotero)
- Sigillographie de l’Empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
This seal, BZS.1958.106.2871, and BZS.1951.31.5.1930 come from the same boulloterion.