Niketas 77

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitIX/X
PmbZ No.5518
LocationsAigaion Pelagos (officeplace);
Aigaion Pelagos
TitlesBasilikos spatharios (dignity);
Droungarios, Aigaion Pelagos (office)
Seal SourcesKonstantipoulos, K.M., Byzantiaka Molybdoboulla tou en Athenais Ethnikou Nomismatikou Mouseiou (Athens, 1917); repr. from JIAN 5-10 (1902-07)

Niketas 77 was basilikos spatharios and droungarios of the Aigaion Pelagos; owner of a seal dateable to the ninth or tenth century: Konstantopoulos, JIAN 5, 97. The name and titles read: Νικήτα βασιλικοῦ σπ[αθ]αρίου δρουγγαρίου [τοῦ] Αἰγέου π[ελάγ]ους. His identification with Niketas Ooryphas (Niketas 66) was proposed by Konstantopoulos (Hemerologion tes Megales Hellados, 1925, 437-450), by Laurent (Byz 5, 1929/1930, 609) and by Zakythinos (EEBS 17, 1941, 256ff.). In JIAN I, 1898, 443- 450, A. Meliarakes suggested that he was the eunuch, protospatharios and droungarios of the Fleet under the emperor Nikephoros II Phokas.

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