Anonymus 568

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VIII
Dates752 (c.) / 752 (c.)
LocationsNikomedeia (officeplace);
Nikomedeia
TitlesHyparchos, Nikomedeia (Bithynia) (office)
Textual SourcesChronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle)

Anonymus 568 was the governor (huparchos) of Nikomedeia; he is mentioned in an anecdote about the supposed discovery of the tomb of the founder of Nikomedeia, Nikodemos (= Nikomedes I, in c. 265BC), during the reign of Constantine V (Konstantinos 7), in a cave near Nikomedeia; the discovery was supposedly reported to him ("the governor ('wprk' = huparchos) of the city") and he then referred the matter to the emperor without touching any of the vast treasures also buried there; in the event the emperor allegedly ordered the cave to be closed up again and sealed: Chron. 1234, ยง183 (p. 337). The event is associated with the year 1063 Sel., i.e. 751/752.

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