Basakios 1 was a basilikos spatharios and archon of Crete; owner of a seal dateable to the eighth or ninth century (early ninth, according to Seibt, see below): Tsougarakis, SBS 2, p. 147, no. 23 = Konstantopoulos, JIAN 6, 298. Obv.: monogram apparently of Θεοτόκε βοήθει. Rev.: [Β]αασ[α]κίῳ βασιλικῷ σ[πα]θαρίῳ καὶ ἄρχοντι Κρήτης. The last title reads: αρ' κρτ, which Konstantopoulos interpreted as: ἄρ(χοντι) κ(ό)ρτ(ης); Oikonomides, Listes, p. 353, n. 371, proposed: ἄρ(χοντι) Κρ(ή)τ(ης), which Seibt accepted; Seibt also proposed to date the seal to the first quarter of the ninth century; see Winkelmann, Rangstruktur, p. 101. Laurent, Vat. 72, note, proposed to identify this person with Basakios 4 on grounds of the name and the date, but the seals in question are now dateable too far apart for this to be likely.

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