e/Vestiarion

New Query

Information
has glosseng: The Vestiarion (, from , "wardrobe"), sometimes with the adjectives basilikon ("imperial") or mega ("great"), was one of the major fiscal departments of the Byzantine bureaucracy. In English it is often known as the department of the Public Wardrobe. Originating from the late Roman palace office of the sacrum vestiarium, it became an independent department in the 7th century under a chartoularios. By the late Byzantine period, it had become the state's sole treasury department. The vestiarion functioned parallel to the other state fiscal departments, the sakellion and the various logothesia, and was responsible for minting coin and bullion, as well as the maintenance of imperial arsenals in Constantinople and the provisioning of the imperial fleet and army. In effect, the vestiarion functioned parallel to the sakellion; salaries for instance were paid one half by each department.
lexicalizationeng: vestiarion
instance ofc/Byzantine Latin loanwords in Greek

Query

Word: (case sensitive)
Language: (ISO 639-3 code, e.g. "eng" for English)


Lexvo © 2008-2025 Gerard de Melo.   Contact   Legal Information / Imprint