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Artavasdos strategos of the Anatolikoi (ninth century)

 
 

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (maybe type V). In the lower quarters: .Λ. Wreath border.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Wreath border.

+ΡΤ
ΥΑΣΔΟΣ
Ρ /ΤΟΝ
ΤΟΛΙΚ

Ἀρταυάσδο στρατηγῷ τον Ἀνατολικῶν

Obverse

Cruciform invocative monogram (maybe type V). In the lower quarters: .Λ. Wreath border.

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines. Wreath border.

+ΡΤ
ΥΑΣΔΟΣ
Ρ /ΤΟΝ
ΤΟΛΙΚ

Ἀρταυάσδο στρατηγῷ τον Ἀνατολικῶν

Accession number BZS.1958.106.3020
Diameter 23.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 3, no. 86.49.

Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore.

Translation

Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἀρταυάσδο στρατηγῷ τον Ἀνατολικῶν.

Mother of God, help your servant Artavasdos, strategos of the Anatolikoi.

Commentary

Same owner as BZS.1951.31.5.2408.

Bibliography

  • Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and at the Fogg Museum of Art, Vol. 3: West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient (Open in Zotero)
  • Documents de sigillographie byzantine: La collection C. Orghidan (Open in Zotero)
  • Sceaux byzantins du Musée National de Varsovie (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)