Balantios, imperial protospatharios and strategos of Cappadocia
Obverse
St Nikolaos (bust) vertical inscriptions with invocation at circ.
Reverse
Text 5 lines
῾Ο ἅγιος Νικόλαος. | Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / Βαλαντίῳ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Καππαδοκίας
St Nikolaos. | Lord aid your servant / Balantios imperial protospatharios and strategos of Cappadocia
Diameter: 23
Date: 10th-11th c.
Seals
- DO 47.2. 52 Dumbarton Oaks
- Athens (Konstantopoulos) 151
Published
- Schlumberger, Sigillographie p. 278, no. 5
- Konstantopoulos, Nom. Mous. no. 151
- McGeer - Nesbitt - Oikonomides IV no. 43. 9