Petros 45 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | IX |
| PmbZ No. | 6055, 6063, 6085 |
| Locations | Calabria (officeplace); Calabria |
| Titles | Basilikos spatharios (dignity); Doux, Calabria (office) |
| Seal Sources | Borsari, S., "L'amministrazione del tema di Sicilia", RSI 66 (1954), pp. 133-158; Dumbarton 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-); Gray Birch, W. de, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1898); Salinas, A., "Sigilli diplomatici italo-graeci", Periodico di Numismatica e Sfragistica Italiana 3, 4, 6 (1871-74); Schlumberger, G. Sigillographie de l'empire byzantin (Paris, 1884); Zacos, G. and Veglery, A., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. I (in 3 parts) (Basel, 1972). |
Petros 45 was basilikos spatharios and doux of Calabria; owner of a seal dateable to the ninth century: DOSeals I 4.5. Obv.: Θεοτόκε βοήθει [τ]ῷ σῷ [δ]ούλῳ. Rev.: Πέτρῳ β(ασιλικῷ) σπα(θαρίῳ) κ(αὶ) δουκ(ὶ) [Κ]αλα(βρίας). A comment in DOSeals refers to other similar seals, e.g. Zacos and Veglery 2310, and cf. Schlumberger, Sig., 220, and Gray Birch, BMSeals 15. Another note adds: "The owner of this seal lived at least a century before the owner of 4.6" (i.e. before Petros 46).
The seal in Schlumberger, Sig., p. 220, no. 4 (= Salinas, "Sigilli diplomatici" IV, p. 267, no. 8; cf. Borsari, pp. 147ff., n. 5, no. 4) (dated to the eighth or ninth century) reads: obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with the legend τω - σω - δου - λω; rev.: Πέτρῳ ......... (καὶ) δουκ(ὶ) Καλαβρίας. The seal in Zacos and Veglery 2310, dated by them between the mid eighth century and the mid ninth, gives the name and titles as: Πέτρῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ δουκὶ Καλαυρίας.
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