Vestarches
Sign in to savethumb|Seal of Michael Antipapos, and of Athens '''''' () was a senior Byzantine honorific dignity in use from the late 10th to early 12th centuries.
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thumb|Seal of Michael Antipapos, and of Athens '''''' () was a senior Byzantine honorific dignity in use from the late 10th to early 12th centuries.
The term means 'master of the ', another group of high court dignitaries. Etymologically, these terms are related to the , the imperial wardrobe, but despite earlier attempts (cf. Bréhier) to connect the or with the officials of the , no such relation appears to have existed.
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