In the upper field, two busts: of Constans II on the left, bearded, wearing a crown and chlamys and holding a globus cruciger in his right hand and of Constantine IV, beardless, wearing a crown and chlamys and holding a globus cruciger in his right hand. In the lower field, inscription of four lines. Linear border.
DO Seals 4, no. 43.8b.
This seal and BZS.1955.1.4384 come from the same boulloterion.
Cappadocia, encompassing the regions north of the Taurus mountain range, is first attested as a tourma of the Anatolikon (De Adm. Imp. 50, l. 90-91) then as a kleisoura, while the first strategos of the theme of Cappadocia is mentioned in 830. It received substantial numbers of Armenian immigrants, so much so that in the XIth century the famous Philaretos Brachamios was appointed τοποτηρητὴς Καππαδόκων (V. Sandrovskaja, “Ermitaznye pecati Filareta Vrahamija,” Akademija Nauk Armianskoj SSR 1975/3, 43). See Oikonomides, Listes, 348; Hild-Restle, Kappadokien, 62-111; Mikra Asia them., 259-274, 441-446 (St. Lampakes).