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                        <lb n="1"/><expan><ex>Θεοτόκε βοήθει</ex></expan> τῷ σῷ δού<supplied reason="lost">λῳ</supplied>
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                          <lb n="2"/><supplied reason="lost">+</supplied> Θεοδ
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                          <lb n="0"/>Κ–Ο–Τ–.–.–Θ–Τ–Σ–Δ..
                          
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                           <lb n="1"/>.ΘΕΟΔ
                         <lb n="2"/>.ΡΒΣΠ
                         <lb n="3"/>..ϗΣΤΡΑΤ
                         <lb n="4"/>...ΟΝΘΡ
                         <lb n="5"/>..ΗΣ
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                  <p>Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ / + Θεοδώρῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ τον Θρᾳκησίων.</p><!-- ῀ cannot be added to o -->
                  <p xml:lang="en">Theotokos help your servant, Theodore, imperial spatharios and strategos of Thrakesion.</p>
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                  <p xml:lang="fr">La dignité de spathaire est basse pour le titulaire d’un tel poste, mais non sans exemple dans
                      la seconde moitié du VIIIe siècle. Il est possible de rapprocher notre sigillant d’un homonyme contemporain, stratège
                      du grand thème des Arméniaques, lui aussi orné d’une modeste dignité, celle de spatharocandidat impérial[1].
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                      [1]  Cheynet – Morrisson – Seibt, <hi rend="italic">Seyrig</hi>, no 167.
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