Alexios 5 was basilikos spatharios; owner of a seal dateable to the eighth or ninth century: Schlumberger, Sig., p. 591, no. 9 (no facsimile). Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with the legend τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Rev.: + Ἀηληω (sic) β(ασιλικῷ) σπαθαρήῳ. Schlumberger's text gives the name as Alexios but the transcript suggests that the owner was called Ailios; the seal was in Schlumberger's own collection.

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