Thomas 15

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE VIII
Dates726 (taq) / 727 (tpq)
LocationsThessalonike (officeplace);
Thessalonike
TitlesPatrikios (dignity);
Genikos logothetes (office);
Kommerkiarios of the apotheke, Thessalonike (office)
Seal SourcesDumbarton 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).

Thomas 15 was a patrikios, genikos logothetes and kommerkiarios of the apotheke of Thessalonike; owner of a seal dateable to 726/727 (see below): DOSeals I 18.49 = Zacos and Veglery 233. Obv.: Ἰ(νδικτίων) ι'. Θωμᾶ πατρικίου, γενικοῦ λογοθέτου. Rev.: (καὶ) κομμερκιαρίου ἀποθήκης Θεσαλονίκις. The obverse has busts of emperors and on iconographic grounds the seal is assigned to the reign of Leo III, between 720 and 732; the tenth indiction is therefore 726/727; see DOSeals I, p. 69, note. Cf. also Thomas 16 and Thomas 41; the three men may possibly have been all one and the same person, stages of whose career are represented by these seals.

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