Byzantine seal (Lead, 23.2 mm, 14.66 g) Niketas, vestarches, dronungarios, epi tou stratou(?).
Obv: +Κ(ύρι)ε β(οή)[θ(ει)] τῷ σῷ δ(ούλῳ) Νικ(ήτᾳ)
Rev: Inscription in five lines: βεστάρχῃ δρουγγαρίῳ [ἐπὶ] τοῦ στρα(τοῦ).
• Vestarches (βεστάρχης) – "chief of the vestai", a higher honorific in use from the end of the 10th to the beginning of the 12th century; first for high-ranking eunuchs, later awarded to the "bearded" - senior officers and court officials of Constantinople. In the hierarchy, it was placed between the titles of magistros and vestes.
• Drungarios, droungarios (δρουγγάριος) - the title existed in both the army and the navy. In the navy in the 8th - 11th centuries, the drungarios was the head of the fleet,
either the main imperial fleet or one of the thematic fleets; in the army, the droungos led the formation known as the droungarios.