Leo patrikios and strategos of Thrakesioi (eighth century)
Obverse
Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the four quarters: τ-σ|-λ. No visible border.
Obverse
Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the four quarters: τ-σ|-λ. No visible border.
Reverse
Inscription of six lines. No visible border.
+λεον
τιπατρι
ιSστρα
τηγτν
θρακησι
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Λέοντι πατρι[κ]ίῳ (καὶ) στρατηγῷ τῶν Θρᾳκησίων.
Accession number | BZS.1958.106.3156 |
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Diameter | 25.0 mm |
Previous Editions | DO Seals 3, no. 2.43. Zacos-Veglery, no. 2132. A similar seal is published by Schlumberger, RN (1916) 33, no. 298; cf. Laurent, Byzantion 5 (1929/30) 637, no. 7. |
Translation
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Λέοντι πατρικίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ τῶν Θρᾳκησίων.
Mother of God, help your servant Leo, patrikios and strategos of Thrakesioi.
Bibliography
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 3: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient (Open in Zotero)
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Commentary
A patrikios and strategos of the Thrakesioi named Leo was killed by the Bulgars in 758/759 (Theophanes I, 431). Another strategos named Leo, but with the lower title of protospatharios, lived some time after the present seal was struck (SBS 3 [1993] 171). Other eighth-century officials of the Thrakesion named Leo have been compiled by W. Seibt, "Drei byzantinische Bleisiegel aus Ephesos, " Litterae Numismaticae Vindobonenses Roberto Goebl Dedicatae (Vienna, 1979), 148-51.