Pothos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | IX or X |
| Locations | Hellas (officeplace); Sicily (officeplace); Hellas; Sicily |
| Titles | Basilikos protospatharios (dignity); Patrikios (dignity); Strategos, Hellas and Sicily (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-) |
Pothos 1 was a patrikios, basilikos protospatharios and strategos of Hellas and of Sicilia; owner of seals dateable to the ninth or tenth century: DOSeals I 5.22. Obv.: patriarchal cross on four steps, with the circular inscription [Κύριε βοήθ]ει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Rev.: Πόθῳ πατρικ(ίᾠ), β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθ(αρίῳ), στρατηγ(ῷ) Ἑλλάδ(ος) (καὶ) Σικελί(ας). Another specimen, possibly from the same boulloterion (see note in DO Seals), is Borsari, no. 9. Obv.: double cross (patriarchal cross) on four steps, with the circular inscription Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθε(ι) τω σ[ω] δουλω. Rev. : +Ποθω - πατρικ' α' - σπα' στρα - τη[γω] Ελλαδ' - (καὶ) Σικελ'. The seal in Borsari apparently does not have the β' for βασιλικῷ.
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