These halved
seals are usually broken along the channel. Because there's only half of the
inscription, they're very hard to id if you can't find a parallel 'whole' seal published... In any case, the
obverse has an invocative
inscription '...aid your servant'. I can't make sense of the image, but could it be a
bust of
Christ with a
cross behind
his head, instead of a round
nimbus?
The
reverse starts with the personal name
Nikephoros, I think is a very safe guess. The next line - 'path' - must refer to one of the modest court dignities of imperial
spatharios, or imperial
protospatharios. Pi-Eta on the next line could well be completed 'EPH', which can refer a large number of offices starting 'epi ...' (for example
epi tes sakelles or
epi tes hetaireias). The last line has R (beta) or K with an abbreviation sign, followed by T.
Regards
Gert
