Eustratios imperial protospatharios and strategos of the Peloponnesos (eleventh century)
Obverse
Cruciform invocative monogram (of indeterminate type); visible in the lower quarters: .Λ. No visible border.
Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Reverse
Inscription of four lines. No visible border.
ΡΑΤΙ
ΠΑΘ/ΣΤ
ΤΗΓ/ΠΕΛ
ΠΟ
Εὐστρατίῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Πελοπονήσου
Obverse
Cruciform invocative monogram (of indeterminate type); visible in the lower quarters: .Λ. No visible border.
Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ
Reverse
Inscription of four lines. No visible border.
ΡΑΤΙ
ΠΑΘ/ΣΤ
ΤΗΓ/ΠΕΛ
ΠΟ
Εὐστρατίῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Πελοπονήσου
| Accession number | BZS.1958.106.2028 |
|---|---|
| Diameter | 25.0 mm |
| Previous Editions | DO Seals 2, no. 22.24. |
Translation
Κύριε or Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Εὐστρατίῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Πελοπονήσου.
Lord or Mother of God, help your servant Eustratios imperial protospatharios and strategos of the Peloponnesos.
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
- Corinth, vol. 12, The Minor Objects
- La Morée franque. Recherches historiques, topographiques et archéologiques sur la principauté d'Achaïe (1205-1430)
- Die Skleroi: Eine prosopographisch-sigillographische Studie
- Theophanis Chronographia
- Les listes de préséance byzantines des IXe et Xe siècles
- Realities of Byzantine Provincial Government: Hellas and Peloponnesos, 1180-1205
- Die byzantinische Armee im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert: Studien zur Organisation der Tagmata
Commentary
Only the lower end of the first discernible letter of the reverse is visible; it must be a Ρ (and not a Π, Μ, or Ν) because of its distance from the following Α, distance needed to accommodate the loop of Ρ. Thus the reading of the name (over, for instance, Ὑπατίῳ) may be considered as secure. Moreover, we know of a second similar seal (from a different boulloterion) which belonged to a certain Eustratios imperial protospatharios and strategos of the Peloponnesos (Corinth XII, no. 2694).