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Manuel imperial strator and dioiketes of Raidestos (ninth/tenth century)

 
 

Obverse

Patriarchal cross on three steps; fleurons rising on either side. Along border of dots, circular inscription.

ΚΕΟΗΘ,ΤΣΔΟΥΛ,

Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθ(ει) τῷ σῷ δούλ(ῳ)

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.

ΜΑΝ,
ΗΛ,ΣΤΡΑ
ΤΔΥΚΙΤ,
ΡΕΔ,Τ,

Μαν(ου)ὴλ β(ασιλικῷ) στράτ(ωρι) (καὶ) δ(ι)υκιτ(ῇ) Ῥεδ(εσ)τ(οῦ)

Obverse

Patriarchal cross on three steps; fleurons rising on either side. Along border of dots, circular inscription.

ΚΕΟΗΘ,ΤΣΔΟΥΛ,

Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθ(ει) τῷ σῷ δούλ(ῳ)

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Border of dots.

ΜΑΝ,
ΗΛ,ΣΤΡΑ
ΤΔΥΚΙΤ,
ΡΕΔ,Τ,

Μαν(ου)ὴλ β(ασιλικῷ) στράτ(ωρι) (καὶ) δ(ι)υκιτ(ῇ) Ῥεδ(εσ)τ(οῦ)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.727
Diameter 20.0 mm; field: 16.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 59.4.

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

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Μανουὴλ βασιλικῷ στράτωρι καὶ διυκιτῇ Ῥεδεστοῦ.

Lord, help your servant Manuel, imperial strator and dioiketes of Raidestos.

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)
  • History of the Byzantine State (Open in Zotero)
  • Notitiae Episcopatuum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae (Open in Zotero)
  • Le Corpus des sceaux de l’empire byzantin (Open in Zotero)
  • La Thrace Orientale et La Mer Noire: Géographie Ecclésiastique et Prosopographie (VIIIe-XIIe Siècles) (Open in Zotero)