Sakellion

A sakellarios (Greek: σακελλάριος) is an official entrusted with administrative and financial duties (cf. sakellē or sakellion, "purse, treasury"). The title was used in the Byzantine Empire with varying functions, and remains in use in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The first known sakellarios was a certain Paul, a freedman appointed by Emperor Zeno (reigned 474–491). The sakellarios is hence usually assumed to have headed a sakellion (or sakella, sakelle), a term which appears in early Byzantine sources with the apparent sense of "treasury", more specifically of cash, as opposed to the vestiarion which was for goods. Despite the origin of the term, the sakellarioi of the early Byzantine period (5th–7th centuries) are not directly associated with financial matters. Rather they appear connected with the imperial bedchamber (koiton), bearing court titles such as spatharios or koubikoularios, while some holders of the office were entrusted with distinctly non-financial tasks: Emperor Heraclius (r. 610–641) appointed the sakellarios Theodore Trithyrius to command against the Arabs, while another sakellarios conducted the examination of Maximos the Confessor under Constans II (r. 641–668).

It is only in the early 8th century that sakellarioi are directly mentioned as treasurers. By the time of the Taktikon Uspensky of ca. 843, the sakellarios had become a general comptroller of the fiscal bureaux (the sekreta), with notaries reporting to him in each department. The actual head of the sakellion department from this period on became the chartoularios tou sakelliou.

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