Thomas 16

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE VIII
Dates722 (taq) / 723 (tpq)
LocationsMesembria (Haemimontus) (officeplace);
Mesembria (Haemimontus)
TitlesPatrikios (dignity);
Genikos logothetes (office);
Kommerkiarios of the apotheke, Mesembria (Haemimontus) (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 16 was a patrikios, genikos logothetes and kommerkiarios of the apotheke of Mesembria; owner of a seal dateable in 722/723 (see below): DOSeals I 77.11 = Zacos and Veglery 232a. Obv.: bust of two emperors, identifiable as Leo III and Constantine V; Ἰ(νδικτίων) v'; [Θ]ωμᾶ πατ[ρικί]ου, γενικ[οῦ] λογ[οθέτου]. Rev.: (καὶ) κο[μ]μερκιαρίου ἀποθήκης Μεσεμ[βρίας ]. A similar seal, from a different boulloterion, is also published by Zacos and Veglery at 232b. The indiction number was read by Zacos and Veglery as the ninth (θ'); Nesbitt and Oikonomides correct this to the sixth ("v'"); the sixth indiction was 722/723. This man was probably identical with Thomas 15, but the name is not uncommon. See also Thomas 41. The three men may possibly have been all one and the same person and the various seals from different stages of his career.

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