Anonymus 27 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E IX |
Dates | 813 (taq) / 813 (ob.) |
Ethnicity | Bulgar |
Locations | Constantinople |
Titles | Logothetes of the Bulgars (office) |
Textual Sources | Scriptor 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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