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Niketas Mytilenaios, asekretis and judge of Aigaion Pelagos (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin holding the Child. Sigla: ̅ΘΥ̅ : Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Unintelligible traces of a circular inscription. Indeterminate border.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

ΝΙΚΗΤ
..ΗΚΡΗΤ,S
..ΙΤ,ΤΑΙ
.ΑΙΠΕΛΑΓ,
.ΜΙΤΥ
.ΗΝ

Νικήτ ἀσηκρῆτις καὶ κριτ τοῦ Αἰγαίου Πελάγους τῷ Μιτυληναίῳ

Obverse

Bust of the Virgin holding the Child. Sigla: ̅ΘΥ̅ : Μήτηρ Θεοῦ. Unintelligible traces of a circular inscription. Indeterminate border.

Reverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

ΝΙΚΗΤ
..ΗΚΡΗΤ,S
..ΙΤ,ΤΑΙ
.ΑΙΠΕΛΑΓ,
.ΜΙΤΥ
.ΗΝ

Νικήτ ἀσηκρῆτις καὶ κριτ τοῦ Αἰγαίου Πελάγους τῷ Μιτυληναίῳ

Accession number BZS.1958.106.4496
Diameter 30.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 40.18.

Translation

Νικήτᾳ ἀσηκρῆτις καὶ κριτῇ τοῦ Αἰγαίου Πελάγους τῷ Μιτυληναίῳ.

Niketas Mytilenaios, asekretis and judge of Aigaion Pelagos.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 2: South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor (Open in Zotero)
  • Methodii Patriarchae Constantinopolitani Vita S. Theophanis Confessoris: e codice mosquensi no. 159 (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)