Basilios 117

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL IX/E X
Variant NamesBasileios
LocationsLopadion (Optimatoi);
Lopadion (Optimatoi) (officeplace)
TitlesBasilikos spatharios (dignity);
Xenodochos, Lopadion (Optimatoi) (office)
Seal SourcesDumbarton 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-);
Zacos, G. and Veglery, A., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. I (in 3 parts) (Basel, 1972).

Basilios 117 was basilikos spatharios (not protospatharios, as Zacos and Veglery; see W. Seibt, Review of Zacos and Veglery, in ByzSlav 36 (1975), 211) and xenodochos of the Loupadion; owner of a seal dateable to the ninth or tenth century: DOSeals III 55.3 = Zacos and Veglery 1779. Obv.: cruciform monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with τω - σω - δου - λω in the corners. Rev.: +.ασηλ - ειω β' σπαθ - αρ' και ξενοδ - οχου του Λ - ουπαδιου. The name and titles read: Βασιλείῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ ξενοδόχου τοῦ Λουπαδίου. Cf. also Basilios 45.

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