Anonymus 258 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Locations | Constantinople |
| Occupation | Servant |
| Textual Sources | Vita Stephani Iunioris, by Stephanus Diaconus (BHG 1666), ed. M.-F. Auzépy, La Vie d'Etienne le Jeune par Étienne le diacre. Introduction, édition et traduction (Aldershot, 1997); PG 100. 1069-1186 (hagiography) |
Anonymus 258 was a slave boy (or possibly the young son) of Souphlamios 1; he is said to have been sacrificed at the Maura by the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) during demon worship (καὶ μαρτυρεῖ τὸ εἰς θυσίαν δοτηὲν τοῦ Σουφλαμίου παιδάριον): Vita Steph. Iun. 165.20 (1169D), and cf. Georg. Mon. 752. 8-11 with P. Speck, Kaiser Konstantin VI: Die Legitimation einer fremden und der Versuch einer eigenen Herrschaft. Quellenkritische Darstellung von 25 Jahren byzantinischer Geschichte nach dem ersten Ikonoklasmus (Munich, 1978), 456 and Gero, Iconoclasm II, p. 144 n. 5.
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