Barsakios 1 was a basilikos protospatharios and strategos of Sicily; owner of several seals dateable to the ninth or tenth century; three are from one boulloterion, the other from a second; the other is DOSeals I 5.9a. Obv.: Κ[υρι]ε βοήθη το σο δουλο (sic). Rev.: Βαρσα - κιω β' α' σπ - αθαρ' και στρ - ατηγ' Σικ - εληας. The name and titles read: Βαρσακίῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Σικελήας. The other three from one boulloterion are DOSeals I 5.9b,c and d. Obv.: Κ[υρι]ε βοηθη το σο δουλω (sic). The reverses read: Βαρσακίῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ Σηκελίας. The note in DOSeals I, p. 26, suggests his identification with the Barsakios (in PBE II) who fought at Taormina in 880/881 and who perhaps became strategos of Longobardia in 894 (referring to V. von Falkenhausen, La Dominazione bizantina nell' Italia meridionale dal IX all' XI secolo (Bari, 1978), 100, no. 62) and see Barsakios 2 and Barsakios 3.

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