Synetos dioiketes, ca. VIII cent.
Θεοτόκε βοήθει τῷ σου δούλῳ Συνετῷ διοικῇτῇ Theotokos, help your servant Synetos dioiketes

During the Byzantine period, the term dioiketes came to refer more broadly to a type of tax collector, with its earliest recorded use dating to 680 in the proceedings of the Third Council of Constantinople. These dioikētai served as subordinate officials under the logothetēs tou genikou, who headed the empire’s general fiscal department (genikon), and were typically assigned to duties in the provinces. Surviving seals reveal that dioikētai were posted not only to the older civil provinces from the Late Roman era but also to the newer themes. However, the majority appear to have been stationed on individual islands or in coastal cities.
(19mm, 11,3 g)