Ioannes 205 was basilikos protospatharios and domestikos of the Hikanatoi; owner of a seal dateable to the ninth century: Schlumberger, Sig., p. 351, no. 1 = p. 737, no. 1 (facsimile). Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with the legend τω - σω - δου - λω. Rev.: Ἰω(άννῃ) β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπ - [α]θαρίῳ (καὶ) δομ - εστίκ(ῳ) τῶν - [Ἱ]κανάτ(ων). Schlumberger dated the seal to the eighth or ninth century, but there is no evidence for the Hikanatoi before the reign of the emperor Nicephorus I (Nikephoros 8), who is recorded as creating the corps; cf. Haldon, Byzantine Praetorians, pp. 245-246.

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