Skip to Content

Paul spatharokandidatos and symponos (tenth/eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Head of a youth wearing a three-pointed crown. Border of pellets within concentric circles of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of four lines, a cross above and a decoration below. Border of dots.

  
ΠΥΛ.
ΣΠΘΡ,
ΚΝ
..Μ̣ΠΟΝˊ
  

Παύλ[ῳ] σπαθαρ(ο)κανδ(ι)δ(άτῳ) (καὶ) [συ]μπόν(ῳ)

Obverse

Head of a youth wearing a three-pointed crown. Border of pellets within concentric circles of dots.

Reverse

Inscription of four lines, a cross above and a decoration below. Border of dots.

  
ΠΥΛ.
ΣΠΘΡ,
ΚΝ
..Μ̣ΠΟΝˊ
  

Παύλ[ῳ] σπαθαρ(ο)κανδ(ι)δ(άτῳ) (καὶ) [συ]μπόν(ῳ)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.756
Diameter 29.0 mm; field: 21.0 mm
Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Παύλῳ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ καὶ συμπόνῳ.

Paul spatharokandidatos and symponos.