David 6 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | VIII or IX |
| PmbZ No. | 1267 |
| Locations | Sicily (officeplace); Sicily |
| Titles | Basilikos protospatharios (dignity); Patrikios (dignity); Strategos, Sicily (office) |
| Seal Sources | Dumbarton Oaks, A Catalogue of the Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, eds., J. Nesbitt and N. Oikonomides (Washington, DC, 1991-); Zacos, G. and Veglery, A., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. I (in 3 parts) (Basel, 1972). |
David 6 was patrikios, basilikos protospatharios and strategos of Sicily; owner of a seal dateable to the eighth or ninth century): DOSeals I 5.16 = Zacos and Veglery 2612. Obv.: cruciform monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with τω - σω - δου - λω in the corners. Rev.: Δα[βὶδ] πατρηκ[ίῳ] β[ασιλικῳ] πρωτοσπαθ[αρίῳ] [καὶ] στρατηγο [Σ]ηκελήας, ἀμήν (sic). The reading of the name is uncertain; Zacos and Veglery suggested the name Ἰωάννη but Nesbitt and Oikonomides, DOSeals, loc. cit., preferred to read the first letter as Δ.
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