Byzantine Lead Seal (8.33g, 22mm)
Eleutheros imperial spatarios and protonotarios of (thema) Tephrike.
Obv: Patriarchal cross on three steps. Circular inscription, beginning at 7 o'clock, between two borders of dots.
Κύριε βοήθη τῷ σῷ δούλῳ.
Rev: (Έλ)ευθερίῳ(?) β(ασιλικῷ) σπαθαρίῳ (καὶ) (πρωτο)νοταρίῳ τῶν Τεφρικ(ῆς)+
The reconstruction of the inscription is not certain.
Tephrike subsequently became the seat of a strategos sometime between 934 and 944 and remained a theme well into the eleventh century.