«...ΑΓΕΤΑΙ... ΓΑΜΕΤΗΝ ΕΚ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑ∆ΟΣ...» ‘‘ (“…He brings .... a bride from Greece...”) (Nikephoros Patriarch, ιστορία σύντομος, 77.9C10)


Published: Feb 3, 2016
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8th century silver stamp plates inscriptions Irene the Athenian Ioannes the imperial protospatharios and chartoularios of the sakellion Central Greece Thebes
Ελευθερία ΒΟΛΤΥΡΑΚΗ
Abstract

In excavations conducted by the 1st Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities in Thebes, two fragments belonging to the same silver stamped plate were discovered. On the hidden side of its base the plate preserves two stamps, one oblong with an arched top and one rectangular. The first carries a bust of Irene the Athenian and a cruciform monogram, while the second mentions John (Ioannes), the imperial (proto)spatharios and chartoularios (chartulary) of the sakellion (treasury).

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