Panaretos 1 was a basilikos spatharios; owner of a seal dateable to the middle of the ninth century (mid thirties to the fifties, Seibt): Seibt, Bleisiegel 183. Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with the legend τω - σω - δου - λω. Rev.: Παναρε - τω β(ασιλικῷ) σπα - θαριω - +. Possibly the same man owned two other seals, earlier in date but closely resembling the above seal palaeographically and in other respects; Konstantopoulos, JIAN 7, 568 (dated eighth or ninth century; obv.: similar to Seibt, Bleisiegel 183; rev.: [1+]1 Παν(α) - ρετω υ - πατω; Seyrig 32 read the reverse as: Παναρέτῳ [ὑ]πάτῳ, and proposed a date in the first half of the eighth century) and Zacos and Veglery 2280 (obv.: similar to Seibt, no. 183; the reverse calls him Πανάρετος ὕπατος καὶ βασιλικὸς κουράτωρ). He was therefore hypatos and basilikos kourator before becoming basilikos spatharios. See Seibt, op. cit., p. 323.

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