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                        <cb n="a"/><expan><ex>Ὁ ἅγιος</ex></expan> <expan><abbr>Νι</abbr>
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                          <lb n="1"/>..ΗΚΗΦ.
                          <lb n="2"/>.ΠΑΘΑΡ/Κ <!-- A not found in Athena ruby palette -->
                          <lb n="3"/>...ΔϗΕΠΣΚΕ
                          <lb n="4"/>.ΤΗΤΤΟΝ
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                  <p>Ὁ ἃγιος Νικόλαος / + Νηκηφόρῳ σπαθαροκανδιδάτῳ καὶ ἐπισκεπτήτῃ τον Μεσανάκτων.</p>
                  <p xml:lang="en">Saint Nicholas. Nikephoros, spatharokandidatos and episkeptites of Mesanakta.</p>
                  <p xml:lang="fr">Saint Nicolas. Nicéphore, spatharocandidat et épiskeptitès de Mésanakta.</p>
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                  <p xml:lang="fr">Le sceau Zacos (BnF) 3787 est privé de la fin des lignes à droite, mais il
                      est mieux conservé et complète donc notre plomb [1]. Dipotamos, que les locaux appelaient Mésanakta, était un
                      <hi rend="italic">basilikon chôrion</hi> bien attesté, quoique sa localisation exacte reste inconnue [2], car ce camp constituait, après
                      Dorylée, une étape sur la route traversant l’Asie Mineure vers la Syrie, depuis la révolte de Bardas Phocas
                      jusqu’en 1116, lors de la dernière campagne d’Alexis Comnène contre les Turcs, désormais installés dans la
                      région [3]. Les domaines impériaux à Mésanakta ou à proximité devaient être considérables pour que Nicéphore
                      ait ensuite occupé la fonction de protocurateur de Mésanakta. La raison de la découverte du sceau de Nicéphore
                      à Adana ou à proximité ne peut qu’être conjecturale. La bulle est peut-être liée au ravitaillement d’une grande
                      armée se dirigeant vers la Syrie, comme celle de Romain Argyre en 1030.
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                      [1]. L’avers est absolument identique, en comptant toutes les perles du phélonion et du livre des Evangiles : . K|O|Λ/ Au revers :
                      ΝΙΚΗΦ |CΠΑΘ..|ΔΔ/SΕΠΙ |ΠΤΗΤ/Τ |MECA. Ce plomb Zacos (BnF) est cité dans Seibt – Wassiliou, <hi rend="italic">Bleisiegel</hi> II, p. 175, au no 170, où
                      est édité le sceau d’un Nicéphore homonyme, protocurateur de Mésanakta, au même saint Nicolas, qui est sans doute identique à notre
                      sigillant.
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                      [2]. Skylitzès, <hi rend="italic">Synopsis historiarum</hi>, p. 320. Toutes références dans <hi rend="italic">Phrygien und Pisidien</hi>, ed. K. Belke and N. Mersich, TIB 7,
                      Vienne 1990, p. 338-339.
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                      [3]. <hi rend="italic">Annae Comnenae. Alexias. Pars prior, Prolegomena et textus</hi>, rec. d. r. reinsCh et A. kAMbylis (CFHB. Series Berolinensis
                      40/1), Berlin – New York 2001, p. 473. Si la localisation exacte de Mésanakta est inconnue, on sait par Anne Comnène que ce camp
                      était situé entre le lac des Quarante Martyrs et Philomèlion.
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