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Akroulios (?) imperial spatharios and droungarios of Aigaion Pelagos (eighth/ninth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΤΣ|.Λ. No border visible.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription. No border visible.

..ΚΡ
ΛΙΒ /ΣΠΘ.
ΔΡΓΓΡ.
ΤΙΓΕΠ.
..Γ

κρουλίῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ δρουγγαρί τοῦ Αἰγέου Πελάγους

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type V); in the quarters: ΤΣ|.Λ. No border visible.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription. No border visible.

..ΚΡ
ΛΙΒ /ΣΠΘ.
ΔΡΓΓΡ.
ΤΙΓΕΠ.
..Γ

κρουλίῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ δρουγγαρί τοῦ Αἰγέου Πελάγους

Accession number BZS.1958.106.5075
Diameter 26.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 40.5.

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἀκρουλίῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ δρουγγαρίῳ τοῦ Αἰγέου Πελάγους.

Mother of God, help your servant Akroulios imperial spatharios and droungarios of Aigaion Pelagos.

Commentary

The owner's name should probably be read as κρούλιος, a variant form of Ἀκρόλιος. The latter is attested on two ninth-century seals (Zacos-Veglery, no. 3072); Corinth XII, no. 2690.

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)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Corinth, Vol. 12, The Minor Objects (Open in Zotero)
  • Methodii Patriarchae Constantinopolitani Vita S. Theophanis Confessoris: e codice mosquensi no. 159 (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)