Theophylaktos 56 was a basilikos protospatharios and strategos of Peloponnesos; owner of a seal perhaps dateable to the ninth or tenth century: Panchenko, Katalog, no. 361 = Bees, "Zur Sigillographie", pp. 92-94 = Bon, Le Péloponnèse byzantin, p. 193, no. 35. The text given by Panchenko read: Θεοφ[υλά]κτῳ β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)[σ]παθ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) τ[ουρμ(άρ)χ(ῃ)] Πελ[οπ](οννήσου); and the seal was dated by him to the eighth century. This may be correct but Bees revised the text and read: (πρωτο)[σ]παθ(αρίῳ) (καὶ) [σ]τ[ρατηγῷ]; he dated the seal to the tenth century. Bon followed Bees, but the reasons for the change, that strategoi were normally protospatharioi while tourmarchs were usually of lower status and that seals of strategoi were much more frequent, are not conclusive.

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