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Staurakios imperial spatharios and kommerkiarios of Thessalonica (tenth century)

 
 

Obverse

A pair of birds walking; bird in foreground, head turned backward, holding branch in its beak; foliage below. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines preceded and followed by a row of three pellets. Border of dots.

···
ΣΤΑΥ
ΡΑΚΙΣ
ΠΑΘ/ΚΟΥ
ΜΕΡΚ,ΘΕ.
ΑΛΟΝΙΚ,
···

Σταυρακίῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ κουμερκιαρίῳ Θεσαλονίκης

Obverse

A pair of birds walking; bird in foreground, head turned backward, holding branch in its beak; foliage below. Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines preceded and followed by a row of three pellets. Border of dots.

···
ΣΤΑΥ
ΡΑΚΙΣ
ΠΑΘ/ΚΟΥ
ΜΕΡΚ,ΘΕ.
ΑΛΟΝΙΚ,
···

Σταυρακίῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ κουμερκιαρίῳ Θεσαλονίκης

Accession number BZS.1958.106.706
Diameter 17.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 18.44b.

Translation

Σταυρακίῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ κουμερκιαρίῳ Θεσαλονίκης.

Staurakios imperial spatharios and kommerkiarios of Thessalonica.

Commentary

From the same boulloterion as BZS.1958.106.1316.

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