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Marinos patrikios, imperial protospatharios, and strategos of Thessalonica (ninth/tenth century)

 
 

Obverse

Patriarchal cross on three steps. Circular inscription between two borders of dots, beginning at 12 o'clock.

ΚΕ..ΗΘΗΤΣΔΟΥΛ

Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines preceded and followed by decoration. Border of dots.


.ΜΑΡΙΝΟ
..ΤΡΙΚΑ
ΣΠΑΘΣΤΑ
ΘΕΣΑΛΟΝ

Μαρίνο πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Θεσαλονίκης

Obverse

Patriarchal cross on three steps. Circular inscription between two borders of dots, beginning at 12 o'clock.

ΚΕ..ΗΘΗΤΣΔΟΥΛ

Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of four lines preceded and followed by decoration. Border of dots.


.ΜΑΡΙΝΟ
..ΤΡΙΚΑ
ΣΠΑΘΣΤΑ
ΘΕΣΑΛΟΝ

Μαρίνο πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Θεσαλονίκης

Accession number BZS.1958.106.4218
Diameter 26.0 mm; field: 20.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 18.69b.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Μαρίνο πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Θεσαλονίκης.

Lord, help your servant Marinos patrikios, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Thessalonica.

Commentary

This specimen likely comes from the same boulloterion as BZS.1958.106.3473. See the commentary to that entry.

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