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Protovestiarios
Protovestiarios (, ) was a high Byzantine court position, originally reserved for eunuchs. In the late Byzantine period (12th–15th centuries), it denoted the Empire's senior-most financial official, and was also adopted by the medieval Serbian state as protovestiyar (прото-вестијар).
Sakellarios
A sakellarios () or sacellarius is the title of an official entrusted with administrative and financial duties (cf. sakellē or sakellion, "purse, treasury") in a government or institution. The title was used in the Byzantine Empire with varying functions and the title remains in use in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Logothetes tou genikou
ancient Byzantine finance minister
Logothetes tou stratiotikou
Byzantine imperial official
choregos
thumb|Relief of seated [[Dionysus and satyr; inscription beneath is a decree by the deme Aixone honoring the choregoi Auteas and Philoxenides (313–312 BC)]] In the theatre of ancient Greece, the choregos (pl. choregoi; , Greek etymology: χορός "chorus" + ἡγεῖσθαι "to lead") was a wealthy Athenian citizen who assumed the public duty, or choregiai, of financing the preparation for the chorus and other aspects of dramatic production that were not paid for by the government of the polis or city-state. Modern Anglicized forms of the word include choragus and choregus, with the accepted plurals bein
chartoularios
The chartoularios or chartularius (), Anglicized as chartulary, was a late Roman and Byzantine administrative official, entrusted with administrative and fiscal duties, either as a subaltern official of a department or province or at the head of various independent bureaus.
Comes sacrarum largitionum
title of office in Roman and Byzantine Empires
Comes rerum privatarum
official of the Roman empire
Vestiarion
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 public vestiarion must not be confused with the Byzantine emperor's private wardrobe, the oikeiakon vestiarion
Mystikos
The '''''' (, "the secret one") was an important Byzantine office of the imperial chancery from the 9th through to the 15th centuries. Its initial role is unclear; he was probably the Byzantine emperor's private secretary. In time, the office also exercised judicial duties. It became an important fiscal official in the Komnenian period, and remained one of the highest-ranking state offices into the Palaiologan period as well.
Kolakretai
The kolakretai or kolagretai () were very ancient magistrates at Athens, who had the management of all financial matters in the time of the kings, at least as early as the 7th century BC.
apodektai
The apodektai (, "receivers") were public officers at Athens, who were introduced by Cleisthenes in the place of the ancient kolakretai (). They were ten in number, one for each Athenian tribe (phyle), and their duty was to receive all the ordinary taxes and distribute them to the separate branches of the administration, which were entitled to them. They accordingly kept lists of persons indebted to the state, made entries of all monies that were paid in, and erased the names of the debtors from the lists. They had the power to decide causes connected with the subjects under their management;
Vestiaritai
The '''''' (, ; , , ) were a corps of imperial bodyguards and fiscal officials in the Byzantine Empire, attested from the 11th to the 15th centuries.
Orphanotrophos
Orphanotrophos () was a Byzantine title for the curator of an orphanage (ὀρφανοτροφεῖον, orphanotropheion). The director of the most important orphanage, the imperial orphanage in Constantinople, established in the 4th century and lasting until the 13th century, eventually rose to become an office of particular significance and ranked among the senior ministers of the Byzantine state.
Dioiketes
Dioikētēs (), often Latinized as dioecetes, is a term applied to a variety of administrative officials.
Logariastes
'''''' () was a type of financial official in the Byzantine Empire from the early 11th century onwards, with the task of controlling expenses.
Epi tou eidikou
administration official in the Byzantine Empire
Apographeus
Apographeus () was a fiscal office in the last centuries of the Byzantine Empire.
Logothetes ton oikeiakon
Kommerkiarios
The kommerkiarios (Greek: κομμερκιάριος) was a fiscal official of the Byzantine Empire charged with the collection of the imperial sales tax or kommerkion.