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Niketas judge of the Thrakesioi (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Inscription of five lines preceded by decoration. Border of dots.

– 
+ψηφσ
.εβαιS
.υρκαι
τσλο
γσ

Ψήφους [β]εβαιῶ (καὶ) [κ]υρῶ καὶ τοὺς λόγους

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

– 
δικασ
πολν.
.ητατ.
θρακησ
.νˋ

δικασπόλου Ν[ικ]ήτα τῶ[ν] Θρᾳκησ[ί]ων

Obverse

Inscription of five lines preceded by decoration. Border of dots.

– 
+ψηφσ
.εβαιS
.υρκαι
τσλο
γσ

Ψήφους [β]εβαιῶ (καὶ) [κ]υρῶ καὶ τοὺς λόγους

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

– 
δικασ
πολν.
.ητατ.
θρακησ
.νˋ

δικασπόλου Ν[ικ]ήτα τῶ[ν] Θρᾳκησ[ί]ων

Accession number BZS.1958.106.4299
Diameter 29.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 2.23.

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

Translation

Ψήφους βεβαιῶ καὶ κυρῶ καὶ τοὺς λόγους 
δικασπόλου Νικήτα τῶν Θρᾳκησίων.

I ratify the decisions and confirm the words of Niketas, dispenser of justice in the theme of the Thrakesioi.

Commentary

Two twelve-syllable verses varying slightly from those presented on the same owner's BZS.1951.31.5.1928. The engraver incised a superfluous abbreviation mark at the end of the last line on the reverse.

Bibliography

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