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Wer war Niketas Nobellisimos und Komes von Opsikion (8. Jahrhundert)?

    Werner Seibt

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 67, pp. 213-216, 2018/07/05

doi: 10.1553/joeb67s213

doi: 10.1553/joeb67s213

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Abstract

Recently an exciting new seal of a Niketas Nobellisimos and Komes of the Opsikion with a bust of the Theotokos on the obverse appeared at the Lanz auction. At first glance it stems from the 8th century, but the only Niketas Nobellisimos documented in the sources for this century, the third son of the Emperor Constantine V and Eudokia, had to be excluded a priori, because he was separated from power at the age of 10 years and became a cleric. Apparently the Niketas of this seal was the eldest son of the usurper / emperor Artabasdos. As there is another slightly older seal of this Niketas, yet with the invocative monogram on the obverse, the bulloterion of the seal above was cut in 742 A.D. On the other hand, this bull proves a certain affinity of Artabasdos’ family with the “ikonodouloi”.