Ioannes 202

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VIII
Dates722 (taq) / 738 (tpq)
PmbZ No.2964
LocationsLydia (officeplace);
Hellespontus (officeplace);
Hellespontus;
Lydia
TitlesHypatos (dignity);
Genikos kommerkiarios of the apotheke, Hellespontus and Lydia (office)
Seal SourcesAntoniadis-Bibicou, H., Recherches sur les douanes à Byzance (Paris, 1963);
Laurent, V., "Bulletin de sigillographie byzantine", Byz 5 (1929/30), pp. 571-654;
Likhachev, N. P., "Datirovannye Vizantijskie Pechati", Izvestiia Rossiiskoi Akademii Istorii Material'noi Kul'tury 3 (1924), pp. 153-224;
Likhachev, N. P., "Nekotorie stareishie tipy pechati vizantiiskikh imperatorov", Numismaticheskii Zbornik 1 (1911), pp. 497-539;
Millet. G, "Sur les sceaux des commerciaires byzantins", in Mélanges offerts à G. Schlumberger (Paris, 1924), pp. 303-327;
Schlumberger, G. Sigillographie de l'empire byzantin (Paris, 1884);
Zacos, G. and Veglery, A., Byzantine Lead Seals, vol. I (in 3 parts) (Basel, 1972).

Ioannes 202 was hypatos and genikos kommerkiarios of the apotheke of Hellespontos and (perhaps) Lydia; owner of a seal dated to a sixth indiction in the seventh or early eighth century, possibly to the year 641 (see below): Schlumberger, Sig., p. 197, no. 4 (facsimile) (= Likhachev, "Nekotorie", pp. 514ff. = Likhachev, "Datirovannye", pp. 169ff., no. 7 = Millet, "Sceaux", p. 311 = Laurent, "Bulletin" I, pp. 605ff., no. 17 = Antoniades-Bibicou, Douanes, p. 226, no. 10). Obv.: busts of two emperors with the legend Ἰωάννου ὑπάτου. Rev.: (και) γενι - κου κομμε - ρκιαριου απ - οθηκης Ελ - λισποντου - (και) Λυ[διασ]?. The emperors are identified by Schlumberger with Heraklios II and Heraklonas, giving the date 641. The last line of the reverse, read by Schlumberger as (και) Κυ[ ζικου]?, appears from the facsimile to have the letters Α or Δ or Λ followed by Υ. See further Zacos and Veglery, vol. I, part i, pp. 176-177, where the busts are identified as Leo III (Leo 3) and Constantine V (Konstantinos 7), giving the possible dates 722/723 and 737/738. Cf. also Ioannes 13.

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