Niketas 6

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE VIII
Dates715 (taq) / 713 (tpq)
PmbZ No.5369
LocationsArmenia Quarta (officeplace);
Kamacha (Armenia Magna) (officeplace);
Koloneia (Armenia) (officeplace);
Caria (officeplace);
Lycia (officeplace);
Asia (officeplace);
Hellespontos (Bithynia) (officeplace);
Cilicia (officeplace);
Constantinople (officeplace);
Lazike (officeplace);
Mesembria (Haemimontus) (officeplace);
Lycia;
Caria;
Asia;
Hellespontos (Bithynia);
Cilicia;
Constantinople;
Lazike;
Mesembria (Haemimontus);
Koloneia (Armenia);
Kamacha (Armenia Magna);
Armenia Quarta
TitlesApo eparchon (dignity);
Genikos kommerkiarios of the apotheke, Koloneia, Kamacha (Armenia Magna) (office);
Genikos kommerkiarios of the apotheke, Mesembria (Haemimontus) (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-);
Oikonomides, N., A Collection of Dated Byzantine Lead Seals (Washington, DC, 1986);
Zacos, G. and Veglery, A., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. I (in 3 parts) (Basel, 1972).

Niketas 6 and Synetos 1 served together as kommerkiarioi in several different areas and were joint owners of a number of seals; see Zacos and Veglery, pp. 156ff. See Synetos 1. The apothekai over which they served were: Lazike; Constantinople; Cilicia; Hellespontos; Mesembria; Asia, Caria and Lycia; and Koloneia, Kamacha and Armenia Quarta, and one other whose name is now lost but perhaps began with the letter "T". They also served together as archontes of the blattion. Recorded on a seal with Synetos 1; they were both apo eparchon and were associated together as genikoi kommerkiarioi of the apotheke of Kolonia, Kamacha and Armenia Quarta: Zacos and Veglery 219 = Oikonomides, Dated Seals, p. 42, no. 30. The names and titles read: [Σ]υνετοῦ (καὶ) Νικήτα [ἀπὸ ἐπά]ρχων - [(καὶ) γ]ενικ - [ῶ]ν κομμερ - [κ]ιαρίων ἀπο - [θή]κης Κολον - [ία]ς, Καμάχω - [ν] (καὶ) Δ', i.e. τετάρτης, Ἀρμε - νίας. The seal is dated to indictions twelve and thirteen and has on the obverse an image of the emperor Anastasios II (Anastasios 6). The date is therefore 713/715. For the identification of the emperor, see Oikonomides, op. cit., p.42. The seal's owners are known from a number of other seals, for which see Zacos and Veglery 156, table 11, with dates from 710/711-713/715. The names of these two men are to be restored on three seals in the Dumbarton Oaks collection, owned by them when they were associated together as genikoi kommerkiarioi of the apotheke of Mesembria: DOSeals I 77.10a = Zacos and Veglery 217a (obv.: [Ι(νδικτίων) ] ιβ'. [Συνε]τοῦ (καὶ) [Νικήτα ἀπὸ ἐπάρχων]; rev.: (καὶ) γεν[ι]κῶν κομμερκιαρί[ων] ἀποθήκ[ης Μ]εσεμ[β]ρίας), 77.10b = Zacos and Veglery 217b (obv.: Ἰ(νδικτίων) ιβ'. [Συνετοῦ (καὶ) Νικήτα ἀπὸ ἐπάρχων]; rev.: [(καὶ) γε]νι[κ]ῶν κομ[μ]ερκιαρίω[ν] ἀποθήκη[σ] Μεσεμ[β]ρίας), and 77.10c = Zacos and Veglery 217c (obv.: Ἰ(νδικτίων) ιβ'. [Συνετοῦ (καὶ) Νικήτα ἀπὸ ἐπάρχων]; rev.: [(καὶ) γε]νι[κ]ῶν κομ[με]ρκιαρίω[ν ἀ]ποθήκη[ς Μ]εσε[μβρίασ]). All three have images of the emperor Anastasios II (Anastasios 6) and therefore date to 713/714, the twelfth indiction. On the restoration of these names, see Nesbitt and Oikonomides, DO Seals I, p. 177, note. Cf. also Theodoros 108.

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