Anonymus 14

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VIII
Dates747 (c.) / 747 (c.)
LocationsConstantinople;
Kibyrrhaiotai;
Kibyrrhaiotai (officeplace);
Keramaia (Cyprus);
Cyprus
TitlesStrategos, Kibyrrhaiotai (office)
Textual SourcesNicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (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)

Anonymus 14 was an unnamed strategos of the Kibyrrhaiotai; in c. 747 he ambushed an Arab fleet in the harbour of Keramaia in Cyprus and destroyed nearly all their boats, returning to Constantinople with the prisoners: Theoph. AM 6238 (745/746, but the first indiction suggests 747/748)(ὁ δὲ στρατηγὸς τῶν Κιβυραιωτῶν), Nic. Brev. de Boor 64, Mango 68:5-6 (ὁ τηνικαῦτα στρατηγῶν τῶν Κιβυραιωτῶν καλουμένου στρατοῦ).

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