Anonyma 88 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | F |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Locations | Oxeia (Constantinople) (topographical); Oxeia (Constantinople) (residence); Constantinople; Constantinople (residence) |
| Textual Sources | Genesii, Josephi, Regum Libri Quattuor, eds. A. Lesmüller-Werner and I. Thurn, CFHB 14 (Berlin, 1978) (history); Pseudo-Symeon, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838), pp. 603-760 (history); Scylitzes, Ioannes, Synopsis Historiarum, ed. J. Thurn (Berlin, 1973) (history); Theophanes Continuatus, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838) (history) |
Mother of Theophobos 1, Anonyma 88 allegedly met Theophobos 1 s father (Anonymus 33) while she ran an inn in Constantinople: Theoph. Cont. III 20, Genesius III 4, Ps.-Symeon 696-697. According to another version, she bore Theophobos 1 after a liaison with a visiting Persian envoy at Constantinople: Theoph. Cont. III 19. Anonyma 88 lived with her son Theophobos 1 in the district of Oxeia in Constantinople: Genesius III 3, Theoph. Cont. III 19.
Anonyma 88 was the mother of Theophobos 1: Scyl., pp. 65-66. In one version she kept an inn at Constantinople and married one of her servants who was of Persian origin: Scyl., p. 66, 84ff. In another she was unmarried and bore Theophobos 1 to a visiting ambassador who was of royal Persian descent: Scyl., p. 65, 60ff. She lived in the Oxeia district of Constantinople: Scyl., p. 66, 69.
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