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Leo imperial protospatharios and strategos of Chaldia (tenth century)

 
 

Obverse

Indistinct (cross on steps?). Seeming traces of a circular inscription. No visible border.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

.λεον
τ..σπ
θριοSστ
ρτηγ,χ
λδισ

Λέοντ[ι β(ασιλικῷ)] (πρωτο)σπαθαρίο (καὶ) στρ(α)τηγ(ῷ) Χαλδίας

Obverse

Indistinct (cross on steps?). Seeming traces of a circular inscription. No visible border.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

.λεον
τ..σπ
θριοSστ
ρτηγ,χ
λδισ

Λέοντ[ι β(ασιλικῷ)] (πρωτο)σπαθαρίο (καὶ) στρ(α)τηγ(ῷ) Χαλδίας

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.2661
Diameter 23.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 32.41.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει (?) Λέοντι βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίο καὶ στρατηγῷ Χαλδίας.

Lord, help Leo, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Chaldia.

Commentary

The seal of an earlier Leo, protospatharios and strategos of Chaldia (with an inscribed cruciform monogram), was published in Sig., 290 (cf. Birch, no. 17, 523) and by Zacos-Veglery, no. 2137A.

Bibliography

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  • De Thematibus (Open in Zotero)
  • Η Μικρά Ασία των θεμάτων. Ἐρευνες πάνω στην γεωγραφική φυσιογνωμία και προσωπογραφία των βυζαντινών θεμάτων της Μικράς Ασίας (Open in Zotero)
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