Pothos patrikios, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Hellas and of Sicily (ninth/tenth century)
Obverse
Patriarchal cross on four steps. Along the circumference, between two borders of dots, an inscription.
ΕΙΤΣΔΟΥΛ
[Κύριε βοήθ]ει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Obverse
Patriarchal cross on four steps. Along the circumference, between two borders of dots, an inscription.
ΕΙΤΣΔΟΥΛ
[Κύριε βοήθ]ει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Reverse
Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.
ΠΟΘ
ΠΑΤΡΙΚˊΑ
ΣΠΑΘˊΣΤΡΑ
ΤΗΓˊΕΛΛΑΔˊ
ΣΙΚΕΛΙ
Πόθῳ πατρικ(ίῳ), β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθ(αρίῳ), στρατηγ(ῷ) Ἑλλάδ(ος) (καὶ) Σικελί(ας)
Accession number | BZS.1947.2.92 |
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Diameter | 25.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 1, no. 5.22. Cf. another specimen (perhaps from the same boulloterion) in Borsari, Amministrazione, 157, no. 9 (Archaeological Museum of Syracuse). |
Translation
Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Πόθῳ πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ, στρατηγῷ Ἑλλάδος καὶ Σικελίας.
Lord, help your servant Pothos patrikios, imperial protospatharios, strategos of Hellas and of Sicily.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 1: Italy, North of the Balkans, North of the Black Sea (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
- Theophanes Continuatus, Ioannes Cameniata, Symeon Magister, Georgius Monachus (Open in Zotero)