Marinos 6 was a patrikios, basilikos protospatharios and strategos of Thessalonike; owner of seals dateable to the ninth or tenth century: DOSeals I 18.69a and b. The two specimens are probably from the same boulloterion. The better preserved seal (b) reads: obv.: Κ(ύρι)ε [βο]ήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ; rev.: Μαρίνο [πα]τρικ(ίῳ), β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) στ<ρ>α(τηγῷ) Θεσαλον(ίκης). The note in DOSeals (p. 75) records a ninth century seal (Mordtmann, "Inscriptions", 197) owned by a Marinos protospatharios and strategos of Thessalonike; Nesbitt and Oikonomides suggest that this man is identical with the protospatharios Marinos who, with the strategos Kakikes, rebuilt a tower of the Vardarios fortress in 862 (see E. Marke, Makedonika 22 (1982), pp. 133-153) and could be identical with Marinos 6 at an earlier stage of his career.

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