Anonymus 48 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | E |
| Floruit | M/L IX |
| Dates | 867 (taq) / 867 (tpq) |
| Locations | Marina (Palace of, Constantinople) (officeplace); Marina (Palace of, Constantinople) (residence); Constantinople |
| Titles | Papias (office) |
| Textual Sources | Georgius Monachus Continuatus, in Theophanes Continuatus, ed I Bekker (Bonn, 1839), pp. 761-924 (history); Leo Grammaticus, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1842) (chronicle); Pseudo-Symeon, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838), pp. 603-760 (history) |
Anonymus 48 was the papias (ὁ παπίας) at the imperial palace of Marina on the night when Michael III (Michael 11) was murdered (23 September 867); after Michael 11's murder the hetairiarches Artabasdos 4 forcibly took Anonymus 48 s keys from him and admitted Basilios 7 (Basil I) and his supporters into the palace; in the morning Anonymus 48 was replaced as papias by Gregorios 25: Leo Gramm. 252, Georg. Mon. Cont. 838, Ps.-Symeon 685-686. This post was normally held by eunuchs; see Oikonomides, Listes, p. 306.
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