Leo 74

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitIX
LocationsThessalonike (officeplace);
Thessalonike
TitlesBasilikos protospatharios (dignity);
Strategos, Thessalonike (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-);
Konstantipoulos, K.M., Byzantiaka Molybdoboulla tou en Athenais Ethnikou Nomismatikou Mouseiou (Athens, 1917); repr. from JIAN 5-10 (1902-07);
Mordtmann, A., "Inscriptions byzantines de Thessalonique", Revue Archéologique 37 (1879), p. 195;
Schlumberger, G. Sigillographie de l'empire byzantin (Paris, 1884);
Studies in Byzantine Sigillography, III (1992) (seals from auction catalogues, etc.);
Zacos G., and Nesbitt, J., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. II (in 3 parts), (Berne, 1984).

Leo 74 was a basilikos protospatharios and strategos of Thessalonike; owner of seals dateable to the ninth century: DOSeals I 18.67. Obv.: Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλ(ῳ). Rev.: Λέον(τι) β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθ(αρίῳ) κ(αὶ) στρατ(ηγῷ) Θεσαλ(ονίκης). The note in DOSeals records four other specimens "with the same decoration and inscription, but from different boulloteria". They are: Mordtmann, "Inscriptions", p. 197; Schlumberger, Sig., pp. 727-728 = Konstantopoulos, JIAN 5, 8 (where the name and titles read: Λέ[ο]ντι βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρα[τη]γοῦ (sic) Θεσσαλονίκης); Zacos, Seals II, no. 219; and S. Kissas, SBS 2 (1990), pp. 189-191. All (the note adds) are of apparently the same period and probably belonged to the same person, perhaps Leo τοῦ Χιτζιλάκη, strategos of Thessalonike in 904, though he was in office for such a short time that the possibility of another Leo protospatharios and strategos cannot be ignored (so Kissas, loc. cit.).

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