Byzantine Iconographic PB Seal of Thomas Spatharokankellarios. Circa 7th-9th centuries AD. Bust of St. Nicholas facing, nimbate, wearing phelonion and omophorion, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels; OAΓΙO (OA ligate) in four lines to left, NKΛѠA(sic) in four lines to right / + A΄ΓIЄNI KO΄ΛAЄBOH΄ ΘѠMCΠA΄ KANK΄ЄP(sic) in four lines; cross above, ornament in the form of TM below. Translation: Saint Nicholas, help Thomas Sparharokankellarios. DOC -; Zacos BLS -; Stavrakos C., Die Byzantinischen Bleisiegel -; Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, Vol. V -; Speck P., Byzantinische Bleisiegel in Berlin (West) I Seibt-Zarnitz, Das byzantinische Bleisiegel als Kunstwerk -; Oikonomides N., A Collection of Dated Byzantine Lead Seals -; Κολιτσίδα-Μακρή, Βυζαντινά Μολυβδόβουλλα -; Bibliothèque Nationale, Les Sceaux byzantins de la collection Henri Seyrig -. 21.06g, 31mm, 12h.
Condition as seen.
The lack of the conjunction 'and' (S in legend) between the title Spatharios and the office Kankellarios in the reverse inscription of this seal suggests the owner bore the title Spatharokankellarios, a position unattested to in the standard references and seemingly otherwise unknown.