Anonymus 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VII |
| Dates | 654 (taq) / 653 (tpq) |
| Religion | Judaic |
| Ethnicity | Hebrew |
| Locations | Edessa (Syria) (residence); Edessa (Syria); Rhodos |
| Occupation | Merchant |
| Textual Sources | Bar Hebraeus, Chronographia, tr. E. A. W. Budge, The Chronography of Abu 'l-Faraj (London, 1932; repr. Amsterdam, 1976) (history); Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio, ed. G. Moravcsik, trans. R. J. H. Jenkins (Washington, D.C., 1967) (history); 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) |
Anonymus 2 was a Jewish merchant from Edessa (ὃν Ἰουδαῖός τις ὠνησάμενος ἔμπορος Ἐδεσηνὸς) who purchased the bronze metal from the Colossus of Rhodes in 653/654 and transported it away on nine hundred camels: Theoph. AM 6145, cf. Zon. XIV 19.16 (τὸν χαλκὸν Ἰουδαῖος).
Anonymus 2 was an unnamed Jew from Emesa, who purchased the metal from the Colossus of Rhodes ("three thousand loads of Corinthian brass"): Mich. Syr. II 443, Bar Hebr., p. 98.
Anonymus 2 was a Jew from Edessa; after the capture of Rhodes by the Arabs, he allegedly bought the remains of the Colossus and transported the bronze loaded onto 900 or 980 camels: Const. Porph., DAI 20, 8 (Ἰουδαῖός τις ἔμπορος ... Ἐδεσσηνός; 900 camels), cf. 21, 64 (Ἑβραῖος Ἐδεσσηνός; 980 camels).
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