Athanasios (?) protekdikos (?) and sakellarios (ninth century)

Commentary

The restoration of the name is uncertain--there seems to be the remnants of an Α before the Θ in the top line, which would render this name Athanasios, however if this A is not present, then the name could be any number of names beginning with Θ (i.e. Theodore, Theodosios, etc.). Laurent, misreads the second line, where there is clearly a ΠΡ, before the ΕΚ. The ΠΡ, can be interpreted in three ways: either this individual is a πρώτῳ (protos), a πρεσβύτερῳ (priest), or this forms the first part of the next word, and he is a πρωτεκδίκου (protekdikos). The former is the least likely, especially with the other two offices this individual owns. That he is a priest is entirely possible--but seems slightly less likely based on its placement foremost within the inscription and its abbreviation here without a καὶ thereafter, than the latter possibility, that this individual is the head of the ekdikoi, the protekdikos. This would be an unusually early seal of a protekdikos, but the position had existed since the late seventh century (ODB, "protekdikos").