Niketas 61 was basilikos protospatharios and strategos of Kephallenia; owner of a seal dateable to the first half of the ninth century (see below): Schlumberger, Sig., p. 207, no. 1 (facsimile) (reading the name as Nikephoros and dating to the ninth century) = Konstantopoulos, JIAN 5, 110 (reading the name as Niketas, and dating eighth or ninth century). Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with the legend τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Rev.: Νικήτ(ᾳ) - β(ασιλικῷ) (πρωτο)σπαθ(αρίῳ) - (καὶ) στρα(τηγῷ) Κε - φ(αλληνίας). The revised reading and date were accepted by Shandrovskaya and Sokolova, while Seibt preferred to date the seal to the first half of the ninth century; see Winkelmann, Rangstruktur, p. 103. Cf. D. A. Zakythinos, "Le thème de Céphalonie et la défense de l' Occident", in L'Hellénisme contemporain, II ser., vol. 8 (1954), p. 307.

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