Niketas 53 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M IX/X |
| PmbZ No. | 5515, 5516 |
| Religion | Christian |
| Occupation | Monk |
| Titles | Synkellos (office) |
| Seal Sources | Konstantipoulos, K.M., Byzantiaka Molybdoboulla tou en Athenais Ethnikou Nomismatikou Mouseiou (Athens, 1917); repr. from JIAN 5-10 (1902-07); Laurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981); Schlumberger, G.,"Monuments byzantins inédits", Florilegium ou recueil de travaux d'érudition dédiés à Monsieur le Marquis Melchior de Vogüé (Paris, 1909), pp. 555-568 |
Niketas 53 was a monk and synkellos; owner of two seals both dateable to the ninth or tenth century: Laurent, Corpus V 1, nos. 224 (= Schlumberger, Florilegium, p. 565, no. 12) (obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with the legend Νικήτᾳ; rev.: +μον - αχω και - συ(γ)κελ - λω) and 225 (= Konstantopoulos, JIAN 6, 269) (obv.: Greek cross with the legend Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ; rev.: +Νικ[η] - τ(ᾳ) μονα - χο συν - κελ(λ)ο). The shape of the beta, like a capital Roman R, excludes a date before early to the mid ninth century.
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