Anonyma 25 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | F |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Dates | 743 (taq) / 773 (tpq) |
| Locations | Pelagios (Cemetery of, Constantinople); Chora (Monastery of the, Constantinople); Constantinople |
| Textual Sources | Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Anonyma 25 was the wife of Baktangios 1 (τὴν αὐτοῦ γυναῖκα: Theoph. AM 6235); thirty years after his execution in 743, she was compelled by the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) to remove his bones from the monastery of Chora herself and throw them into the cemetery of Pelagios, which was reserved for criminals: Theoph. AM 6235, Zon. XV 5. 20.
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