Anonymus 94 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M/L VIII |
PmbZ No. | 4352 |
Variant Names | tes |
Locations | Crete (officeplace); Crete (residence); Crete |
Titles | Basilikos spatharios (dignity); Archon, Crete (office) |
Seal Sources | Dumbarton Oaks, A Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, eds., J. Nesbitt and N. Oikonomides (Washington, DC, 1991-); Tsougarakis, D., "The Byzantine Seals of Crete", SBS 2 (1990), pp. 137-152.; Zacos, G. and Veglery, A., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. I (in 3 parts) (Basel, 1972). |
Anonymus 94 was a basilikos spatharios and archon of Crete; owner of a seal dateable to the second half of the eighth century; his name is lost but ended in the dative with the letters ...τη: DOSeals II 36.2 = Zacos and Veglery 2645 = Tsougarakis, SBS 2, p. 146, no. 16. Obv.: cruciform monogram of Κύριε βοήθει, with τω - σω - δου -λω in the corners. Rev.: ..... - .τη β' σπ - αθ' και αρχ - οντ' Κρι - της. The text on the reverse reads: ..... - .τῃ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ ἄρχοντι Κρήτης. The name may have been Leo; see Nesbitt and Oikonomides, DO Seals, ad loc..
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