Anthis 3 was a patrikios left in charge of Constantinople as ek prosopou of the emperor when Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) went on campaign against the Scythians (i.e. the Bulgars); he was ordered by Constantine V (Konstantinos 7) to go to Mt Auxentius and arrest the nun Anna 6, against whom charges of misconduct with Stephanos 2 (Stephen the Younger) had been made: Vita Steph. Iun. 132, 17-133, 4 (1128A-B) (τὸν ἀντ' αὐτοῦ τὴν πόλιν κρατοῦντα, Ἄνθην τοὔνομα, καὶ τῇ πατρικίου ἀξίᾳ καταλεγόμενον; the emperor wrote that, because of his proven loyalty, he was conferring on him the dignity of ek prosopou - τὴν ἐκ προσώπου ἡμῶν ἀξίαν σοι πεπιστεύκαμεν). He left for Mt Auxentius instantly with soldiers, who burst violently into the convent and frightened the nuns; the hegoumene (Anonyma 27) rebuked them and arranged for Anna 6 to accompany them to the emperor: Vita Steph. Iun. 133, 6-26 (1128B-1129A). The date was after the Council of Hieria, and may have been either 754 or 755.

Anthis 3 can perhaps be identified with Anthes, patrikios and ek prosopou of the philochristoi despotai, who owned a seal dateable to the eighth century: Zacos and Veglery 1721. Obv.: cruciform monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει, with τω - σω - δου - λω in the corners. Rev.: Ανθη - [π]ατρικιω <και> - [ε]κπροσωπου - [τ]ων φιλ' δε[ς - π]οτων ε... - .....[ν?]. The significance of the last visible letter (ε) is not clear; the suggestion in Zacos and Veglery that it began an epithet qualifying δεσποτῶν seems unlikely in view of its position, but it is not easy to propose an alternative. One possibly, however, is εὐλαβεστάτων, for which cf. Leo 203.

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