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Bardanios imperial protospatharios and logothetes of the stratiotikon (tenth century)

 
 

Obverse

A patriarchal cross mounted on a base of four steps. Within concentric borders of dots, a circular inscription beginning at seven o'clock:

ΚΕΟΗΘΗΤ.ΔΟΥΛ

Κύριε βοήθη τῷ [σ]ῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines beginning with a cross. A row of pellets above. Border of dots.

  
Ρ
.Ι̣ΣΠ
..Ρ ΛΟΓ
Ο̣Θ̣Ε̣ΤΤΟΥ
ΣΤΡΤ/

Βαρδα[ν]ίῳ β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπ[αθ]αρ(ίῳ) (καὶ) λογοθέτ(ῃ) τοῦ στρατ(ιωτικοῦ)

Obverse

A patriarchal cross mounted on a base of four steps. Within concentric borders of dots, a circular inscription beginning at seven o'clock:

ΚΕΟΗΘΗΤ.ΔΟΥΛ

Κύριε βοήθη τῷ [σ]ῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines beginning with a cross. A row of pellets above. Border of dots.

  
Ρ
.Ι̣ΣΠ
..Ρ ΛΟΓ
Ο̣Θ̣Ε̣ΤΤΟΥ
ΣΤΡΤ/

Βαρδα[ν]ίῳ β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπ[αθ]αρ(ίῳ) (καὶ) λογοθέτ(ῃ) τοῦ στρατ(ιωτικοῦ)

Accession number BZS.1951.31.5.759
Diameter 26.0 mm
Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Βαρδανίῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ λογοθέτῃ τοῦ στρατιωτικοῦ.

Lord, help your servant Bardanios, imperial protospatharios and logothetes of the stratiotikon.