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Euphemianos imperial protospatharios and strategos of Hellas (eighth/ninth century)

 
 

Obverse

Remains of a cruciform invocative monogram (type VIII); visible in the quarters: ΣΩ|ΛΩ. Wreath border.

Κύριε βοήθει [τῷ] σῷ [δ]ούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, top line missing. Wreath border.

ΟΒ,ˊΑ,ˊΣ
Θ,ˊΣΤΡΑ
ΙΓ,ˊΕΛΑ
ΔΟΣ

[Εὐφιμιαν]ο βασιλικῷ πρωτοσ[πα]θαρίῳ καὶ στρα[τ]ιγ Ἑλάδος.

Obverse

Remains of a cruciform invocative monogram (type VIII); visible in the quarters: ΣΩ|ΛΩ. Wreath border.

Κύριε βοήθει [τῷ] σῷ [δ]ούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, top line missing. Wreath border.

ΟΒ,ˊΑ,ˊΣ
Θ,ˊΣΤΡΑ
ΙΓ,ˊΕΛΑ
ΔΟΣ

[Εὐφιμιαν]ο βασιλικῷ πρωτοσ[πα]θαρίῳ καὶ στρα[τ]ιγ Ἑλάδος.

Accession number BZS 1951.31.5.2312
Diameter 25.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 8.44(x).
Cf. Zacos-Veglery, no. 1886.

Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Εὐφιμιανο βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ Ἑλάδος.

Lord, help your servant Euphemianos imperial protospatharios and strategos of Hellas.

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)
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  • Le Peloponnese byzantin jusqu’en 1204 (Open in Zotero)
  • Du stratège de thème au duc: chronologie de l’évolution au cours du XIe siècle (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • Hellas und Thessalia (Open in Zotero)
  • Die byzantinische Armee im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Organisation der Tagmata (Open in Zotero)

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