Nikephoros 23 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | IX/X |
| Variant Names | Niketas |
| Locations | Bizye (Thrace) (officeplace); Bizye (Thrace) |
| Titles | Basilikos spatharokandidatos (dignity); Tourmarches, Bizye (office) |
| Seal Sources | Dumbarton 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-); Nesbitt, J., "Overstruck Seals in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection", SBS 2 (1990), pp. 67-93 |
The name of Nikephoros 23 could be either Nikephoros or Niketas. Basilikos spatharokandidatos and tourmarches of Bizye; owner of a seal dateable to the ninth or tenth century: DOSeals I 74.1 = Nesbitt, "Overstruck Seals", pp. 82-83, n. 15. Obv.: Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθει τῷ σῷ [δούλῳ]. Rev.: Νικη[φόρῳ] (or Νική[τᾳ]) β(ασιλικῷ) σπαθ[(α)ρ(ο)καν]διδ(άτωιͅ) (καὶ) [το]υρμάρ[χ(ῃ)] Βυζή(ης). His inscription was an overstrike. If the name was Nikephoros, the seal could have belonged to Nikephoros, the husband of Maria the Younger and tourmarches of Bizye in the early tenth century; see Nesbitt and Oikonomides, DO Seals I, p. 170, note.
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