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Euphemianos imperial spatharios and droungarios of Aigaion Pelagos (eighth/ninth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type VIII). In the quarters: ΤΩΣΩ|Δ   ΛΩ. Wreath border.

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Wreath border.

ΕΥΙΜΙ
ΑΝΟΒˊΣΠΑ
ΘΔΡΟΥΓ
ΓΤΟΥΕΓΙ
ΠΕΛ /

Εὐφιμιανο βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ δρουγγαρίῳ τοῦ Ἐγίου Πελάγους

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (type VIII). In the quarters: ΤΩΣΩ|Δ   ΛΩ. Wreath border.

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines. Wreath border.

ΕΥΙΜΙ
ΑΝΟΒˊΣΠΑ
ΘΔΡΟΥΓ
ΓΤΟΥΕΓΙ
ΠΕΛ /

Εὐφιμιανο βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ δρουγγαρίῳ τοῦ Ἐγίου Πελάγους

Accession number BZS.1955.1.827
Diameter 30.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 2, no. 40.7a.
Zacos-Veglery, no. 1887.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Εὐφιμιανο βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ δρουγγαρίῳ τοῦ Ἐγίου Πελάγους.

Lord, help your servant Euphemianos, imperial spatharios and droungarios of Aigaion Pelagos.

Commentary

This specimen is edited jointly with the parallels from the same boulloterion,listed below.

The reading "Egiou" on these seals, although not normal, is not unique. Cf. DO Seals 2, no. 40.11 (BZS 1958.106.2474). For the person of Euphemianos, cf. DO Seals 2, no 8.44 (the entries linked to BZS 1955.1.836).

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)
  • Byzantine Lead Seals, Vol. 1 (Open in Zotero)
  • Methodii Patriarchae Constantinopolitani Vita S. Theophanis Confessoris: e codice mosquensi no. 159 (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)