Anonymus 496 was basilikos spatharios and strategos of Mesopotamia; owner of a seal dateable to the early ninth century, possibly in 825/826; his name is mostly lost but included the letters ..γι..ος: Zacos and Veglery 284. Obv.: busts of two emperors, one of them beardless (according to Zacos and Veglery, they are Michael II (Michael 10) and Theophilos 5) and the legend [ἰν]δικτηον [τ]εταρτ. Rev.: ..γι.. - ..ω β' σπ.. - στρατ.. - Μεσοπ.

The name and title read: ..γι....ῳ βασιλικῷ σπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατηγῷ Μεσοποταμίας. The fourth indiction under Michael II (Michael 10) and Theophilos 5 was 825/826, see Zacos and Veglery, vol. I, pp. 361ff.; see however W. Seibt, "Review of G. Zacos and A. Veglery", in ByzSlav 36 (1975), p. 210, who identifies the emperors differently and dates the seal fifteen years earlier, in 810/811. Cf. also Brandes, "Überlegungen zur Vorgeschichte des Thema Mesopotamien", in ByzSlav 44 (1983), pp. 171-177, and Winkelmann, Rangstruktur, p. 105. Possibilities for the name are Longinos or Reginos.

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