Basilios 36 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | L VIII/E IX |
PmbZ No. | 894 |
Variant Names | Basileios |
Locations | Crete (officeplace); 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). |
Basilios 36 was a basilikos spatharios and archon of Crete; owner of a seal dateable to the eighth or ninth century: DOSeals II 36.1 = Zacos and Veglery 1782 = Tsougarakis, SBS 2, p. 146, no. 18. Obv.: cruciform monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with τω - σω - δου - λω in the corners. Rev.: Βασι - ιω β' σπα - αρχοντ - Κριτ. The text of the reverse reads: Βασιλείῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ ἄρχοντι Κρήτης.
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