Tourganes 1 was a stratelates; owner of a seal dateable to the first half of the seventh century: Seibt, Bleisiegel I, no. 199. Obv.: +Το - υργα - νο<υ>. Rev. : στρ - ατηλ - ατου. The name is Turkish; given the date, this man was perhaps a Khazar or an Avar. The title stratelates occurs very frequently on seals of the late sixth and early seventh centuries and appears to denote the honorific title of Magister militum, not an actual office (see the evidence collected in PLRE III, pp. 1506-1509); this man was perhaps a foreign dignitary honoured with an honorific title at Constantinople.

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