Bardas 11 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | IX |
| PmbZ No. | 798 |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Thrace (officeplace); Thrace |
| Titles | Basilikos spatharios (dignity); Strategos, Thrace (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-); Studies in Byzantine Sigillography, III (1992) (seals from auction catalogues, etc.); Zacos, G. and Veglery, A., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. I (in 3 parts) (Basel, 1972). |
Bardas 11 was a basilikos spatharios and strategos of Thrace; owner of several seals dateable to the ninth century: DOSeals I 71.23a (= Zacos and Veglery 1761a = Nesbitt, Studies in Byzantine Sigillography 2, p. 81, n. 13), 71.23b (= Zacos and Veglery 1761b), 71.23c. All the specimens are from the same boulloterion. Obv.: cruciform monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with τω - σω - δου - λω in the corners. Rev.: Βαρδα - β' σπαθα' και - στρατι' τ' - Θρακι'. The name and titles read: Βάρδᾳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ τῆς Θρᾴκης. Nesbitt and Oikonomides note the reading τ[ων] Θρᾳκη[σιων] as possible but less likely (DOSeals I, p. 163, note). The first seal (71.23a) was overstruck; the original owner was Theodoros 107. Cf. also Bardas 16 (whose seal is different from those above in several respects).
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