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Gregory or Demetrios patrikios, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Salonica (ninth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (of indeterminate type); in the quarters: ..Λ. Border of dots.

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τσῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

..
ΡΗΟΠΑΤΡ
ΙΚ//Α/ΣΠΑΘ
ΣΤΡΑΤΗ.
ΟΤΗΣΣΑΛΟ
ΝΗΚΗΣ

Γρηγο/Δημητρήο πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγο τῆς Σαλονήκης

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (of indeterminate type); in the quarters: ..Λ. Border of dots.

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τσῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

..
ΡΗΟΠΑΤΡ
ΙΚ//Α/ΣΠΑΘ
ΣΤΡΑΤΗ.
ΟΤΗΣΣΑΛΟ
ΝΗΚΗΣ

Γρηγο/Δημητρήο πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγο τῆς Σαλονήκης

Accession number BZS.1955.1.909
Diameter 25.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 18.66.
Zacos-Veglery, no. 1964.

Translation

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Γρηγο/Δημητρήο πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγο τῆς Σαλονήκης.

Lord or Theotokos, help your servant Gregory (or Demetrios) patrikios, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Salonica.

Commentary

For the form Σαλονίκη, see DO Seals 1, no. 18.29.

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