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Kyriakos patrikios and general logothetes of the apotheke of Koloneia and Kamacha (702-704)

 
 

Obverse

Emperor Tiberios/Apsimaros standing frontally, wearing a crown and a chlamys and holding a globus cruciger in his right hand. Indiction signs on either side: α|β. Circular inscription beginning at one o'clock. No visible border.

κυριακουπατρικηου

Κυριακοῦ πατρικήου

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. No visible border.

γε..
κουλογο
θετουαπο
θικησκολω
νιασκαμ
αχων

καὶ γενικοῦ λογοθέτου ἀποθίκης Κολωνίας καὶ Καμάχων

Obverse

Emperor Tiberios/Apsimaros standing frontally, wearing a crown and a chlamys and holding a globus cruciger in his right hand. Indiction signs on either side: α|β. Circular inscription beginning at one o'clock. No visible border.

κυριακουπατρικηου

Κυριακοῦ πατρικήου

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. No visible border.

γε..
κουλογο
θετουαπο
θικησκολω
νιασκαμ
αχων

καὶ γενικοῦ λογοθέτου ἀποθίκης Κολωνίας καὶ Καμάχων

Accession number BZS.1955.1.4379
Diameter 34.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 65.1.
Zacos-Veglery, no. 203.

Translation

Κυριακοῦ πατρικήου καὶ γενικοῦ λογοθέτου ἀποθίκης Κολωνίας καὶ Καμάχων.

(Seal of) Kyriakos patrikios and general logothetes of the apotheke of Koloneia and Kamacha.

Commentary

Kyriakos is attested from 696/7 to 702/704. See Zacos-Veglery, 154, table 9; add a seal from Sougdaia (Sudak), published by V. Šandrovskaja, "Die neuen Funde an byzantinischen Bleisiegeln auf der Krim," SBS 4 (1994) 153-54 and another one in Seibt-Zarnitz, no. 1.3.7.

Kamachos (also Kamacha, the modern Kemah) is located to the southwest of Erzincan on the south bank of the Euphrates. It became a metropolis after 911 with the establishment of the theme of Mesopotamia (Laurent, Corpus V/1, 571). See also Sinclair II, 415 ff.

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