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Lazaros kouboukleisios and horreiarios of Chios (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

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

 
ΚΕΟ
ΗΘΕΙΤ
ΣΔΟΥΛ,
ΛΑΖΑΡ,

 

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλ Λαζάρ

Reverse

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


.ΚΟΥ
ΚΛΗΣ
ΡΕΙΑΡΙ
ΧΙΟΥ

κουβουκλησίῳ καὶ ὡρειαρίῳ Χίου

Obverse

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

 
ΚΕΟ
ΗΘΕΙΤ
ΣΔΟΥΛ,
ΛΑΖΑΡ,

 

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλ Λαζάρ

Reverse

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


.ΚΟΥ
ΚΛΗΣ
ΡΕΙΑΡΙ
ΧΙΟΥ

κουβουκλησίῳ καὶ ὡρειαρίῳ Χίου

Accession number BZS.1955.1.4601
Diameter 25.0 mm; field: 22.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 41.4b.
Cf. Laurent, Corpus V/1, no. 201 (erroneous reading).

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Λαζάρῳ κουβουκλησίῳ καὶ ὡρειαρίῳ Χίου.

Lord, help your servant Lazaros kouboukleisios and horreiarios of Chios.

Commentary

This seal is edited jointly with its fellow specimen from the same boulloterion: BZS 1947.2.296. See the commentary to that entry.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 2: South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Μελέται περὶ τῆς διοικητικῆς διαιρέσεως καὶ τῆς ἐπαρχιακῆς διοικήσεως ἐν τῷ βυζαντινῷ κράτει (Open in Zotero)
  • Les îles de l’empire byzantin: VIIIe-XIIe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • Hierarchia Ecclesiastica Orientalis: Series episcoporum ecclesiarum christianarum orientalium (Open in Zotero)
  • Un aspect du ravitaillement de Constantinople aux Xe/XIe siècles d’après quelques sceaux d’horreiarioi (Open in Zotero)