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Nicholas primikerios of the oikonomos of the Great Church (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of a bearded male saint holding a book in his right hand (probably St. Nicholas). Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

νικο
λ,πριμι
κηρ,τυ
κονομ,τ
εκλη

Νικόλ(αος) πριμικήρ(ιος) τοῦ ὐκονόμου τ(ῆς) Μ(ε)γ(άλης) Ἐκλη(σίας)

Obverse

Bust of a bearded male saint holding a book in his right hand (probably St. Nicholas). Border of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

νικο
λ,πριμι
κηρ,τυ
κονομ,τ
εκλη

Νικόλ(αος) πριμικήρ(ιος) τοῦ ὐκονόμου τ(ῆς) Μ(ε)γ(άλης) Ἐκλη(σίας)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.3148
Diameter 20.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 5 no. 42.41b; Laurent, Corpus 5.1: no. 60. Laurent illustrates a Paris specimen.

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

Translation

Νικόλαος πριμικήριος τοῦ ὐκονόμου τῆς Μεγάλης Ἐκλησίας.

Nicholas primikerios of the oikonomos of the Great Church.

Commentary

The reading of this poorly preserved specimen has been restored with reference to its counterpart from the same boulloterion: BZS 1951.31.5.3148.

The bottom of a letter from the first line on the reverse is faintly visible above the iota and mu of the second line.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, Volume 5: The East (continued), Constantinople and Environs, Unknown Locations, Addenda, Uncertain Readings (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)