Bardas imperial spatharios and strategos of Thrace (ninth century)
Obverse
Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΤΣ|ΔΛ. Wreath border.
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Obverse
Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΤΣ|ΔΛ. Wreath border.
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Reverse
Inscription of four lines. Wreath border.
ΒΡΔ
ΒΣΠΘ
ΣΤΡΤΙΤ
ΘΡΚΙ
Βάρδᾳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ τῆς Θρᾴκις
Accession number | BZS.1955.1.719 |
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Diameter | 31.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 1, no. 71.23b. |
Translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Βάρδᾳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ τῆς Θρᾴκις.
Theotokos, help your servant Bardas imperial spatharios and strategos of Thrace.
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)
- Overstruck Seals in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (Open in Zotero)
- De Thematibus (Open in Zotero)
- “Thrakien” und “Thrakesion” (Open in Zotero)
- Die zweihundertjährige Reform (Zu den Anfängen der Themenorganisation im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert) (Open in Zotero)
- Ανίχνευση τοπογραφική της ανατολικής Θράκης (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
- La Thrace Orientale et La Mer Noire: Géographie Ecclésiastique et Prosopographie (VIIIe-XIIe Siècles) (Open in Zotero)
- Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
- Constantini Porphyrogeniti De cerimoniis aulae byzantinae (Open in Zotero)
Commentary
See the commentary to BZS 1955.1.718, a parallel specimen from the same boulloterion.