Anonymus 27

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE IX
Dates813 (taq) / 813 (ob.)
EthnicityBulgar
LocationsConstantinople
TitlesLogothetes of the Bulgars (office)
Textual SourcesScriptor Incertus de Leone Armenio, ed. I. Bekker, Leo Grammaticus (Bonn, 1842), pp. 335-362; app. crit., R. Browning, Byz 35 (1965), pp. 391-41; ed. with comm. and tr., Fr. Iadevaia (Messina, 1987) (history)

Anonymus 27 was described as the logothetes of the Bulgar leader Krum 1 (ὁ λογοθέτης αὐτοῦ); he was present at the siege of Constantinople in 813; he was one of the three persons with Krum 1 when he was the object of an assassination attempt while parleying with the emperor; Krum 1 escaped but his three companions were all captured; the logothetes was immediately executed: Scriptor Incertus 343-344. He was presumably the chief financial official of Krum 1.

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