Lykastos 4 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | IX/X |
| PmbZ No. | 4655 |
| Locations | Macedonia (officeplace); Macedonia |
| Titles | Basilikos protospatharios (dignity); Strategos, Macedonia (office) |
| Seal Sources | Mordtmann, A., "Peri Byzantinon Molybdoboullon", Hellenikos Philologikos Syllogos 13, supplement archeologique (1880), pp, 44-49; Schlumberger, G. Sigillographie de l'empire byzantin (Paris, 1884) |
Lykastos 4 was a basilikos protospatharios and strategos of Macedonia; owner of a seal dateable to the ninth or tenth century: Schlumberger, Sig., p. 111, no. 2 (published by Mordtmann, "Byz. Molybdoboullon" III, pp. 84ff.). The text as given by Schlumberger reads: [Θεοτόκε] or [Κύριε βοήθει] τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Λυκάστ(ῳ) β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) στρατηγ(ῷ) Μακεδον(ίας). The seal is assigned to the time of the Macedonian dynasty. Cf. also Winkelmann, Rangstruktur, pp. 102, 114.
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