Anonymus 730 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Dates | 716 (taq) / 717 (tpq) |
| Locations | Tyana (Cappadocia);
Tyana (Cappadocia) (officeplace) |
| Titles | Governor, Tyana (Cappadocia) (office) |
| Textual Sources | Chronique de Denys de Tell-Mahré, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot (Paris, 1895); tr. A. Palmer, The Seventh Century in West-Syrian Chronicles (Liverpool, 1993), pp. 54-65 (chronicle) |
Anonymus 730 was the governor ("huparka") of the city of Tyana in the year 1028 Sel. (716/717); when the Arab army withdrew from Constantinople after the unsuccessful siege and approached Tyana, the governor judged them to be so weakened as to be vulnerable and asked the emperor Leo III (Leo 3) for troops with whom to attack them; his army was 60,000 strong, but was surprised and ambushed by an Arab detachment under `Abbas ibn Walid (Abas 2) and destroyed: Pseudo-Dion., Chron., pp. 159, 6-160, 10 = p. 117 = pp. 64ff. (Palmer).
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