Anonymus 17 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Locations | Constantinople (workplace); Constantinople (residence) |
| Occupation | Candle maker |
| 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) |
Anonymus 17 was an unnamed keroularios (κηρουλλάριός τις) (seller of wax tapers), prosperous from his trade in the Forum at Constantinople; an anecdote hostile to the emperor Nikephoros I (Nikephoros 8) tells how the emperor confiscated his wealth, one hundred pounds of gold, and gave him back one hundred gold pieces: Theoph. AM 6302, cf. Zon. XV 15. Although recorded in a contemporary source, the story may be fictitious, invented by opponents of the emperor Nikephoros 8.
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