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Basil protospatharios epi tou Chrysotriklinou, grand chartoularios of the genikon and protonotarios (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Half preserved bust of St. Mark offering a blessing and holding a book. Fragments of sigla preserved at right.

Reverse

Inscription of seven lines. Border of dots.

α
Ασπ
τ
χα
τγ
αν
ρ,

Βασίλειος πρωτοσπαθάριος ἐπὶ τοῦ Χρυσοτριτρικλίνου, μέγας χαρτουλάριος τοῦ γενικοῦ καὶ πρωτονοτάριος

Obverse

Half preserved bust of St. Mark offering a blessing and holding a book. Fragments of sigla preserved at right.

Reverse

Inscription of seven lines. Border of dots.

α
Ασπ
τ
χα
τγ
αν
ρ,

Βασίλειος πρωτοσπαθάριος ἐπὶ τοῦ Χρυσοτριτρικλίνου, μέγας χαρτουλάριος τοῦ γενικοῦ καὶ πρωτονοτάριος

Accession number BZS.1955.1.2870
Diameter 25.0 mm
Previous Editions

Oikonomides, “Usual Lead Seal,” 153–56, figs. 3q (obv.) and 4q (rev.)

Translation

Βασίλειος πρωτοσπαθάριος ἐπὶ τοῦ Χρυσοτρικλίνου, μέγας χαρτουλάριος τοῦ γενικοῦ καὶ πρωτονοτάριος.

Basil protospatharios epi tou Chrysotriklinou, grand chartoularios of the genikon and protonotarios.

Commentary

One of ten specimens (listed below) which belong to the same owner but which do not all derive from the same boulloterion. As they present the same inscriptions, their readings have been combined.