Andreas 28 was basilikos spatharios and anthypatos; owner of a seal dateable to the ninth century; his family name was Botaniates: Schlumberger, Sig., p. 438, no. 2. Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with the legend τω - σω - δου - λω. Rev.: + Ἀνδρέα β(ασιλικῷ) σπαθ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) ἀνθυπ(άτῳ) τῷ Βο[τανι]άτ(ῃ). (No facsimile). The date is questioned as too early by Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, p. 158.

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