The Early Byzantine province of Lydia based on sigillographic evidence

Early Byzantine seals attest a number of civil officials of the province of Lydia, only sometimes in connection with other (neighbouring) provinces. We know two archontes, Thalassios (with the title of Stratelates, early eighth century) and Maurianos (early eighth century), and two Dioiketai, Theodoros (later eighth century) and Michael (first third nineth century). There is still more information about Kommerkiarioi: Ioulianos ἀπὸ ὑπάτων was γενικὸς κομμερκιάριος Λυδίας in 687/688, Kyriakos ἀπὸ ὑπάτων was γενικὸς λογοθέτης ἀποθήκης Καπατιανῆς καὶ Λυδίας in 696/697, Ioannes ὕπατος was γενικὸς κομμερκιάριος ἀποθήκης Ἑλλησπόντου καὶ Λυδίας in 721/722, Theophanes πατρίκιος β. πρωτοσπαθάριος was γενικὸς λογοθέτης καὶ κομμερκιάριος ἀποθήκης Ἑλλησπόντου καὶ Λυδίας in 727/728, and Theoktistos ὕπατος was also γενικὸς κομμερκιάριος ἀποθήκης Ἑλλησπόντου καὶ Λυδίας in 729/730. Immediately afterwards not single Kommerkiarioi but the office of the imperial Kommerkia sealed, still using imperial busts. We know such seals of the imperial Kommerkia of Lydia for the year 731/732, of Bithynia, (Phrygia) Saloutaris, (Phrygia) Pakatiane, and Lydia for the year 733/734, and again of Lydia (alone) for the year 736/737. In an addendum a further lead seal is mentioned, with a bust in profile to the left and the inscription ΛVΔ/IAC, dating from late antiquity.