Basilios 50 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | IX |
| PmbZ No. | 902 |
| Variant Names | Basileios |
| Locations | Calabria (officeplace); Calabria |
| Titles | Basilikos protospatharios (dignity); Basilikos spatharios (dignity); Doux, Calabria (office) |
| Seal Sources | Salinas, A., "Sigilli diplomatici italo-graeci", Periodico di Numismatica e Sfragistica Italiana 3, 4, 6 (1871-74); Schlumberger, G. Sigillographie de l'empire byzantin (Paris, 1884) |
Basilios 50 was basilikos protospatharios and doux of Calabria; owner of a seal dateable to the ninth century: Schlumberger, Sig., p. 220, no. 1 (= Salinas, "Sigilli diplomatici" 4, p. 267, no. 5). Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with the legend τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Rev.: Βασιλείῳ β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) δουκ(ὶ) Καλαβ(ρίας). The same man perhaps owned a second surviving seal, dateable to the ninth century, in which Basilios is recorded as basilikos spatharios and doux of Calabria, presumably at an earlier stage in his career: Schlumberger, Sig., p. 220, no. 2 (= Salinas, "Sigilli diplomatici" 4, p. 267, no. 6). Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with the legend τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Rev.: Βασιλείῳ β(ασιλικῷ) σπαθ(αρίωι) (καὶ) δουκὶ Καλ(αβρίας). Cf. also Basilios 30 and the note in DO Seals I 4.1.
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