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Pardos hypatos and kommerkiarios of Thessalonica (ninth/tenth century)

 
 
title

Obverse

Bust of Christ, bearded, with a cross behind this head, hand raised in blessing, and holding a book. No identifying inscription. Circular inscription along the circumference. No visible border.

ΚΕΟΗΘΗΤΣΔΟ.

Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δο[ύλῳ]

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Reverse

Inscription of five lines, a row of three pellets below. Border of dots.

ΠΡΔ
ΟΥΠΤΟ
ΚΟΥΜΕΡΚΗ
ΡΗΟΘΕΣ
ΛΟΝΗΚ/
···

Πάρδ{ο}ῳ ὑπάτο (καὶ) κουμερκηαρήο Θεσαλονήκ(ης)

Obverse

Bust of Christ, bearded, with a cross behind this head, hand raised in blessing, and holding a book. No identifying inscription. Circular inscription along the circumference. No visible border.

ΚΕΟΗΘΗΤΣΔΟ.

Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δο[ύλῳ]

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, a row of three pellets below. Border of dots.

ΠΡΔ
ΟΥΠΤΟ
ΚΟΥΜΕΡΚΗ
ΡΗΟΘΕΣ
ΛΟΝΗΚ/
···

Πάρδ{ο}ῳ ὑπάτο (καὶ) κουμερκηαρήο Θεσαλονήκ(ης)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.1745
Diameter 22.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 18.42.
Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Πάρδοῳ ὑπάτο καὶ κουμερκηαρήο Θεσαλονήκης.

Lord, help your servant Pardos hypatos and kommerkiarios of Thessalonica.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 1: Italy, North of the Balkans, North of the Black Sea (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 2 (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Silk Trade and Production in Byzantium from the Sixth to the Ninth Century: The Seals of Kommerkiarioi (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantinische Bleisiegel in Berlin (West) (Open in Zotero)
  • Le kommerkion d’Abydos, Thessalonique et le commerce bulgare du 9e siècle (Open in Zotero)
  • Recherches sur les douanes à Byzance: L’octava, le "kommerkion" et les commerciares (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
  • Les plus anciens recueils des miracles de Saint Démétrius et la pénétration des Slaves dans les Balkans (Open in Zotero)
  • L’éparque de Thessalonique: les origines d'une institution administrative (VIIIe-IXe siècles) (Open in Zotero)