Ampeles 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 836 (taq) / 836 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 219 |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Hagios Porphyrios (Monastery of, Bithynia) (topographical); Apollonias (Lake) (residence); Sophon Kome (Bithynia) (residence); Sophon Kome (Bithynia) |
| Occupation | Peasant |
| Textual Sources | Vita Petri Atroensis, by Sabas the monk (BHG 2364), ed. V. Laurent, La Vie merveilleuse de Saint Pierre d'Atroa, Subsidia Hagiographica 29 (Brussels, 1956) (hagiography) |
Ampeles 1 was a poor layman and a peasant, living in the village of Sophon beside lake Apollonias (τις κοσμικὸς πτωχός, τοὔνομα Ἀμπέλης, ἐκ κώμης καλουμένης Σοφοῦ); the lake overflowed and flooded his house and the rest of the village and he visited Peter of Atroa (Petros 34) at the monastery of St Porphyrios and asked him to intercede to stop it: Vita Petr. Atr. 76 (pp. 207-209). Lake Apollonias was on the border of Hellespontus and Bithynia.
The date was after Petros 34 returned to Atroa in 835/836 and before his death, 1 January 837. On πτωχὸς as meaning "peasant", see Laurent, p. 206, note 2.
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