Gregoras imperial spatharios and archon of Cherson (ninth century, first half)

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

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Inscription in four lines. No visible border.

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Γρηγορᾷ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ ἄρχοντι Χερσόνος

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

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Inscription in four lines. No visible border.

ΓΡΗΓΟ
ΡΒΣΠΘ
ΡΧΧΕΡ
ΣΟΝΟΣ

Γρηγορᾷ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ ἄρχοντι Χερσόνος

Accession number	BZS.1951.31.5.2253
Diameter	26.0 mm
Previous Editions	DO Seals 1, no. 82.2. Zacos-Veglery, no. 3113. Alekseyenko, L'administration Byzantine de Cherson, no. 13 (with parallel specimens). Cf. Sokolova, Zbor. Rad. 18 (1978) 83, no. 3 and Monety, no. 5a. Another specimen is published by Sokolova, Zbor. Rad. 18 (1978) 82-83, and Monety, no. 5. The Hermitage specimen is from a different boulloterion. Cf. also Alekseyenko, L'administration Byzantine de Cherson, no. 11, 12, 14 for seals likely of the same person (with a number of specimens of each).
Credit Line	Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Γρηγορᾷ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ ἄρχοντι Χερσόνος.

Theotokos, help your servant Gregoras imperial spatharios and archon of Cherson.

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