Baanes, tourmarches, 6th-7th centuries. Seal (Lead, 22 mm, 8.33 g, 12 h). Cruciform monogram BAANOV. Rev. Cruciform monogram TOVPMAPXOV. Unpublished in the standard references. Good very fine.

From an important collection of Roman and Byzantine seals, tesserae and amulets, formed before 2021.

In the Byzantine military-administrative provincial system, a province or 'theme', was headed by a strategos. Subsequently, a theme was divided into several tourmai, under command of a tourmarches. These tourmai comprised several droungoi, commanded by a droungarios.