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Isaias imperial protospatharios and strategos of the Peloponnesos (ninth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΤΣ|Λ. No visible border.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ [δ]ούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. No visible borders.

ΗΣΑΙΑ
ΒΑΣΠΑΘΑ
.ΙΣΤΡΑ
ΤΙΓΠΕ.
ΠΟΝΗ

Ἠσαΐᾳ β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθα[ρ]ίῳ (καὶ) στρατιγ(ῷ) Πε[λο]πονή[σ(ου)]

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΤΣ|Λ. No visible border.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ [δ]ούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. No visible borders.

ΗΣΑΙΑ
ΒΑΣΠΑΘΑ
.ΙΣΤΡΑ
ΤΙΓΠΕ.
ΠΟΝΗ

Ἠσαΐᾳ β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθα[ρ]ίῳ (καὶ) στρατιγ(ῷ) Πε[λο]πονή[σ(ου)]

Accession number BZS.1947.2.132
Diameter 35.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 22.26a. Cf. similar seal from a different boulloterion, published by Mordtmann, RA 1877/1, 294 (=Sig., 179, note 5, no. 1; cf. Bon, Péloponnèse, 187, no. 6); another is preserved in the Hermitage Collection (M-623): I. Sokolova, in VizVrem 42 (1981) table III.

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἠσαΐᾳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ Πελοπονήσου.

Mother of God, help your servant Isaias, imperial protospatharios and strategos of the Peloponnesos.

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