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Demetrios imperial spatharokandidatos and strategos of Aigaion Pelagos (tenth century)

 
 

Obverse

Patriarchal cross on four steps. Between two borders of dots, inscription.

ΚΕΟΗΘΕΙΤΣΔΟΥΛ

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΙΤΡ
ΙˊΣΠΘˊ
ΚΝΙˊΣ
ΤΡΤ,ΤΕΓ,
ΠΕΛΓ,

Διμητρίῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ τοῦ Ἐγαίου Πελάγους

Obverse

Patriarchal cross on four steps. Between two borders of dots, inscription.

ΚΕΟΗΘΕΙΤΣΔΟΥΛ

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Border of dots.

ΙΤΡ
ΙˊΣΠΘˊ
ΚΝΙˊΣ
ΤΡΤ,ΤΕΓ,
ΠΕΛΓ,

Διμητρίῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ τοῦ Ἐγαίου Πελάγους

Accession number BZS.1955.1.1424
Diameter 24.0 mm; field: 18.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 40.27a.
N. Oikonomides, "The Usual Lead Seal," 151.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Διμητρίῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ τοῦ Ἐγαίου Πελάγους.

Lord, help your servant Demetrios imperial spatharokandidatos and strategos of Aigaion Pelagos.

Commentary

Same owner as DO Seals 2, no. 40.28 (BZS 1955.1.1424).

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 2: South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor (Open in Zotero)
  • The Usual Lead Seal (Open in Zotero)
  • Methodii Patriarchae Constantinopolitani Vita S. Theophanis Confessoris: e codice mosquensi no. 159 (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles (Open in Zotero)
  • Byzantinische Rang- und Ämterstruktur im 8. und 9. Jahrhundert: Faktoren und Tendenzen ihrer Entwicklung (Open in Zotero)