Leo 105 was basilikos protospatharios and strategos of Peloponnesos; owner of a seal dateable probably to the tenth or eleventh century: Schlumberger, Sig., p. 181, no. 7 (facsimile) = Konstantopoulos, JIAN 5, 72 = Bees, "Zur Sigillographie", pp. 91-92, no. 1, with p. 232 = Bon, Le Péloponnèse byzantin, p. 189, no. 18. Obv.: Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δ[ού]λ(ῳ). Rev.: Λέοντ(η) β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) στρατ(ηγῷ) Πελο(ποννήσου). Konstantopoulos and Bees proposed to identify this man with Leo Skleros, strategos of Peloponnesos in the early ninth century (= Leo 17). Laurent ("Sceaux" IV, p. 339, n. 2) accepted this. Bon, loc. cit., kept an open mind. Winkelmann, Rangstruktur, p. 104, is sceptical. The facsimile in Schlumberger shows that the beta was in the form of an R, a shape which came into use only in the middle of the ninth century (see Oikonomides, Dated Seals, p. 159). The seal is therefore too late in date to have belonged to Leo 17. See also Seibt, Skleroi, II, p. 21 who dates the seal to the middle years of the tenth century.

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