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Constantine Promoundenos, magistros, judge of the Velum and of the Anatolikoi (eleventh century)

 
 

Obverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

+ΚΕ.Ο
ΗΘΕΙΤ
ΣΔΟΥΛ
ΚΝΣΤΑΝ
ΤΙΝΜΑ
ΓΙΣΤΡ

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Κωνσταντίνῳ μαγίστρῳ

Reverse

Inscription of six lines preceded by a decoration. Border of dots.


ΚΡΙΤΗ
ΤΟΥΗΛ
ΤΝΑΝΑ
ΤΟΛΙΚΝ
ΤΠΡΟΜ
ΝΔΗΝΩ

κριτῇ τοῦ βήλου καὶ τῶν Ἀνατολικῶν τῷ Προμουνδηνῷ

Obverse

Inscription of six lines. Border of dots.

+ΚΕ.Ο
ΗΘΕΙΤ
ΣΔΟΥΛ
ΚΝΣΤΑΝ
ΤΙΝΜΑ
ΓΙΣΤΡ

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Κωνσταντίνῳ μαγίστρῳ

Reverse

Inscription of six lines preceded by a decoration. Border of dots.


ΚΡΙΤΗ
ΤΟΥΗΛ
ΤΝΑΝΑ
ΤΟΛΙΚΝ
ΤΠΡΟΜ
ΝΔΗΝΩ

κριτῇ τοῦ βήλου καὶ τῶν Ἀνατολικῶν τῷ Προμουνδηνῷ

Accession number BZS.1955.1.3270
Diameter 22.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 86.25a.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Κωνσταντίνῳ μαγίστρῳ, κριτῇ τοῦ βήλου καὶ τῶν Ἀνατολικῶν τῷ Προμουνδηνῷ.

Lord, help your servant Constantine Promoundenos, magistros, judge of the Velum and of the Anatolikoi.

Commentary

The reading of the top lines of the obverse and reverse has been restored with reference to the better preserved specimen from the same boulloterion: BZS 1955.1.3271.

This person may well be the Constantine Promoundenos who is attested on two seals in the Hermitage (see Šandrovskaja, Sfragistika, nos. 712, 713) as: a) magistros, vestes, judge of the Velum and of the Thrakesioi; and b) vestarches, judge of the Velum and of the Armeniakoi. See also Seibt, Bleisiegel, 303, note 10, where he notes a further seal of Constantine Promoundenos, βεστάρχης, κριτὴς τοῦ βήλου καὶ τῶν Ἀνατολικῶν. A Constantine Promoundenos was hypatos and imperial notarios of the sakelle in 1088 (Patmos I, no. 49B, line 291).

Bibliography

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