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Michael Saronites, protospatharios epi tou Chrysotriklinou, chartoularios of the genikon logothesion, judge of the Velum, and anagrapheus of Chaldia and Derzene (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Inscription of six lines. No visible border.

+μιχ
..λασπα
..επιτ.
.τλλογ.
...ικκρ
τ

Μιχ[αὴ]λ (πρωτο)σπα[θ(α)ρ(ίῳ)] ἐπὶ τοῦ Χρ(υσο)[(τρι)κ(λίνου), χ(αρ)]τ(ου)λ(αρίῳ) λογ[οθεσίου τοῦ γεν]ικοῦ, κρ(ι)τ(ῇ)

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, followed by an ornament. No visible border.

...τ.
λSανα.
.α,χαλδ.
.ερζη..
.σαρ,

[ἐπὶ] τοῦ [βή]λ(ου) (καὶ) ἀνα[γρ]α(φεῖ) Χαλδ(ίας) [(καὶ) Δ]ερζη[νῆς τῷ] Σαρω(νίτῃ)

Obverse

Inscription of six lines. No visible border.

+μιχ
..λασπα
..επιτ.
.τλλογ.
...ικκρ
τ

Μιχ[αὴ]λ (πρωτο)σπα[θ(α)ρ(ίῳ)] ἐπὶ τοῦ Χρ(υσο)[(τρι)κ(λίνου), χ(αρ)]τ(ου)λ(αρίῳ) λογ[οθεσίου τοῦ γεν]ικοῦ, κρ(ι)τ(ῇ)

Reverse

Inscription of five lines, followed by an ornament. No visible border.

...τ.
λSανα.
.α,χαλδ.
.ερζη..
.σαρ,

[ἐπὶ] τοῦ [βή]λ(ου) (καὶ) ἀνα[γρ]α(φεῖ) Χαλδ(ίας) [(καὶ) Δ]ερζη[νῆς τῷ] Σαρω(νίτῃ)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.2629
Diameter 22.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 4, no. 61.1.

Translation

Μιχαὴλ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ ἐπὶ τοῦ Χρυσοτρικλίνου, χαρτουλαρίῳ λογοθεσίου τοῦ γενικοῦ, κριτῇ ἐπὶ τοῦ βήλου καὶ ἀναγραφεῖ Χαλδίας καὶ Δερζηνῆς τῷ Σαρωνίτῃ.

Michael Saronites, protospatharios epi tou Chrysotriklinou, chartoularios of the genikon logothesion, judge of the Velum and anagrapheus of Chaldia and Derzene.

Commentary

Other eleventh-century Saronitai named Michael are noted in DO Seals 1, no. 1.20; cf. SBS 3 (1993) 160.

Modern Tercan, Derzene was on the road from Erzincan to Erzerum. The creation of this theme is attested by 948-952 (De Adm. Imp. ch. 53, l. 507; see also Commentary, 209). Cf. Listes, 241 and n. 12, 358. Our seals show that the civil administration of Derzene was often given to officials who exercised a mandate in nearby Chaldia. See also Lihacev, IZIGI, pl. VI, 14.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 4: The East (Open in Zotero)
  • De Administrando Imperio (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • Istoriceskoe znacenie italo-greceskoj ikonopisi: Izobra zenija Bogomatera v prozvedenijah italo-greceskih ikonopiscev i ih vlijanie na kompozicii nekotoryh proslavlennyh russkih ikon (Open in Zotero)
  • 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)