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Anastasios imperial protospatharios epi tou Chrysotriklinou and strategos of An(chialos) (?) (tenth/eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Bust of a bishop-saint, blessing and holding book. Traces of vertical inscription. Linear border, along with inscription.

........σδ

[Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθει τῷ] σῷ δού(λῳ)

Reverse

Inscription preceded and followed by tendril decoration. Indeterminate border.


νστ.
σιˊσπ
θˊεπιτχρυ
..τρ,στρτ
γ,γ....

Ἀναστ[α]σίῳ β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθ(αρίῳ) ἐπὶ τοῦ Χρυ[σο]τρ(ικλίνου) (καὶ) στρ(α)τ(η)γ(ῷ) Ἀγ[χιάλου]

Obverse

Bust of a bishop-saint, blessing and holding book. Traces of vertical inscription. Linear border, along with inscription.

........σδ

[Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθει τῷ] σῷ δού(λῳ)

Reverse

Inscription preceded and followed by tendril decoration. Indeterminate border.


νστ.
σιˊσπ
θˊεπιτχρυ
..τρ,στρτ
γ,γ....

Ἀναστ[α]σίῳ β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθ(αρίῳ) ἐπὶ τοῦ Χρυ[σο]τρ(ικλίνου) (καὶ) στρ(α)τ(η)γ(ῷ) Ἀγ[χιάλου]

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.3280
Diameter 26.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 73.1b.

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

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἀναστασίῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ ἐπὶ τοῦ Χρυσοτρικλίνου καὶ στρατηγῷ Ἀγχιάλου (?).

Lord, help your servant Anastasios imperial protospatharios epi tou Chrysotriklinou and strategos of Anchialos (?).

Commentary

The reading of this specimen is based on its better preserved parallel from the same boulloterion: see BZS 1947.2.39.

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)
  • Μελέται περὶ τῆς διοικητικῆς διαιρέσεως καὶ τῆς ἐπαρχιακῆς διοικήσεως ἐν τῷ βυζαντινῷ κράτει (Open in Zotero)
  • La Thrace Orientale et La Mer Noire: Géographie Ecclésiastique et Prosopographie (VIIIe-XIIe Siècles) (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)