Eudokimos Epitringlines, merarches (tenth/eleventh centuries)
- Accession Number:
- BZS.1951.31.5.1822 (formerly Fogg 1822)
Details
- Diameter:
- 21 mm
- Weight:
- 6.20 g
Obverse
Bust of St. Nicholas, raising his right hand in blessing and holding a book in his left. Vertical inscriptions to left and right: |Ν|Ι Κ|Ο|Λ: Ὁ ἅ(γιος) Νικόλ(αος). Indeterminate border.
Reverse
Inscription of four lines, preceded and followed by decoration. Indeterminate border.
Εὐδόκιμο(ς) μεριάρχ(ης) ὁ Ἐπι(τρ)ιγγλ(ίνης).
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Commentary
The reading of the surname is uncertain. There is a tourmarches named Eudokimos Epitriklines (BZS.1951.31.5.1322), and although the spelling is different, the similar iconography, the close relationship between the offices (if they were indeed separate offices), and the fact that both inscriptions are in the nominative, without an invocation, raise the possibility that these two seals belong to the same individual.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore