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Eustratios imperial protospatharios and strategos of the Peloponnesos (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (of indeterminate type); visible in the lower quarters: .Λ. No visible border.

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. No visible border.

ΡΑΤΙ
ΠΑΘ/ΣΤ
ΤΗΓ/ΠΕΛ
ΠΟ

Εὐστρατίῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγ Πελοπονήσου

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (of indeterminate type); visible in the lower quarters: .Λ. No visible border.

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. No visible border.

ΡΑΤΙ
ΠΑΘ/ΣΤ
ΤΗΓ/ΠΕΛ
ΠΟ

Εὐστρατίῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγ Πελοπονήσου

Accession number BZS.1958.106.2028
Diameter 25.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 22.24.

Translation

Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Εὐστρατίῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Πελοπονήσου.

Lord or Mother of God, help your servant Eustratios imperial protospatharios and strategos of the Peloponnesos.

Commentary

Only the lower end of the first discernible letter of the reverse is visible; it must be a Ρ (and not a ΠΜ, or Ν) because of its distance from the following Α, distance needed to accommodate the loop of Ρ. Thus the reading of the name (over, for instance, Ὑπατίῳ) may be considered as secure. Moreover, we know of a second similar seal (from a different boulloterion) which belonged to a certain Eustratios imperial protospatharios and strategos of the Peloponnesos (Corinth XII, no. 2694).

Bibliography

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