Niketas 151

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM/L IX
PmbZ No.5512
TitlesBasilikos protospatharios (dignity);
Patrikios (dignity);
Droungarios of the basilikon ploïmon (office)
Seal SourcesLaurent, V., Le corpus des sceaux de l'empire byzatin, V, 1-3, L'église (Paris, 1963-72); II, L'administration centrale (Paris, 1981);
Zacos, G. and Veglery, A., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. I (in 3 parts) (Basel, 1972).

Niketas 151 was patrikios, basilikos protospatharios and droungarios of the basilikon ploïmon; owner of a seal dateable to the second half of the ninth century: Zacos and Veglery 2253 = Laurent, Corpus II 956. The name and titles read: Νικήτᾳ πατρικίῳ, βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ δρουγγαρίῳ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ πλωΐμου. Possibly identical with Niketas 66 or Ooryphas 1 (Niketas Ooryphas) (Zacos and Veglery, note), and see also Seibt, Skleroi, 25, for other suggestions.

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