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Anastasios hypatos, imperial balnitor, and general kommerkiarios of the apotheke of Thessalonica (724/5)

 
 

Obverse

In upper field, two imperial busts: Leo III (left) bearded, and Constantine V, beardless: each holds globus cruciger and wears divitision, chlamys, and crown with a cross. On either side, indiction signs: Η. In lower field, inscription of four lines. Linear border.

ΝΣΤΣΙΟΥ
ΥΠΤΟΥΒΑΣΙ
ΛΙΚΟΥΒ.
ΝΙΤΟΡΟΣ

Ἰ(νδικτιὼν) ηˊ. Ἀναστασίου ὑπάτου βασιλικοῦ βα[λ]νίτορος

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. Linear border.

ΓΕΝ
ΙΚΟΥΚΟΜ
ΜΕΡΚΙΡΙ
ΟΥΠΟΘΗΚ
ΗΣΘΕΣΛ
ΟΝΙΚΙΣ

(καὶ) γενικοῦ κομμερκιαρίου ἀποθήκης Θεσαλονίκης

Obverse

In upper field, two imperial busts: Leo III (left) bearded, and Constantine V, beardless: each holds globus cruciger and wears divitision, chlamys, and crown with a cross. On either side, indiction signs: Η. In lower field, inscription of four lines. Linear border.

ΝΣΤΣΙΟΥ
ΥΠΤΟΥΒΑΣΙ
ΛΙΚΟΥΒ.
ΝΙΤΟΡΟΣ

Ἰ(νδικτιὼν) ηˊ. Ἀναστασίου ὑπάτου βασιλικοῦ βα[λ]νίτορος

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. Linear border.

ΓΕΝ
ΙΚΟΥΚΟΜ
ΜΕΡΚΙΡΙ
ΟΥΠΟΘΗΚ
ΗΣΘΕΣΛ
ΟΝΙΚΙΣ

(καὶ) γενικοῦ κομμερκιαρίου ἀποθήκης Θεσαλονίκης

Accession number BZS.1947.2.164
Diameter 34.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 18.33.
Zacos-Veglery, no. 231a. Cf. a second specimen from the same boulloterion (?) published ibid., no. 231b.

Translation

Ἰνδικτιὼν ηˊ. Ἀναστασίου ὑπάτου, βασιλικοῦ βαλνίτορος, καὶ γενικοῦ κομμερκιαρίου ἀποθήκης Θεσαλονίκης.

Indiction 8. Anastasios hypatos, imperial balnitor, and general kommerkiarios of the apotheke of Thessalonike.

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