Isaias 1 was basilikos protospatharios and strategos of Peloponnesos; owner of two similar seals dateable to the ninth century: DOSeals II 22.26a and b. Obv.: cruciform monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with τω - σω - δου - λω in the corners. Rev.: +Ησαια - β' α' σπαθα - .ιω και στρα - τιγ' Πε. πονη (or similar). The name and titles read: Ἠσαίᾳ β(ασιλικῷ) πρωτοσπαθα[ρ]ίῳ καὶ στρατιγ(ῷ) Πε[λο]πονή(σου). For another similar seal, see I. V. Sokolova, "Ob epigrafike vizantiiskikh pechatei VIII-IX vv.", VV 42 (1981), table III (Hermitage Collection, M-623). All these seals are from different boulloteria; see Nesbitt and Oikonomides, DO Seals II, p. 71. Possibly identical with Isaias, basilikos protospatharios and strategos of Peloponnesos, the owner of a seal dated by Schlumberger to the late eighth century: Schlumberger, Sig., p. 179, n. 5, no. 1 (with facsimile) = Mordtmann, "Plombs" I, p. 294, no. 7, cf. Bon, Le Péloponnèse byzantin, p. 187, no. 6. Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with the legend τω - σω - δου - λω in the corners. Rev.: +Ησαια - β(ασιλικῷ) πρωτοσπαθ(αρίῳ) - και στρ(ατηγῷ) Πελ - οπονησ(ου). Cf. Winkelmann, Rangstruktur, p. 104. Bon (loc. cit.) preferred to date this seal not before the mid ninth century but his reason (the combination of protospatharios and strategos) is invalid; see Winkelmann, op. cit., p. 48, n. 1, p. 104, n. 6.

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