Artabasdos 4 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L IX |
| Dates | 867 (taq) / 867 (tpq) |
| Ethnicity | Armenian |
| Locations | Constantinople; Constantinople (officeplace); Constantinople (residence); Marina (Palace of, Constantinople) |
| Titles | Hetairiarches (office) |
| Textual Sources | Georgius Monachus Continuatus, in Theophanes Continuatus, ed I Bekker (Bonn, 1839), pp. 761-924 (history); Leo Grammaticus, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1842) (chronicle); Pseudo-Symeon, Chronographia, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838), pp. 603-760 (history) |
Artabasdos 4 was a hetairiarches; he was on guard at the palace of Marina on the night when Michael III (Michael 11) was murdered in the imperial palace; Basilios 7 and the conspirators used Eulogios 1 to tell Artabasdos 4 in his own tongue that Michael 11 was dead and he should admit the emperor Basilios 7, and Artabasdos 4 then went to the papias (Anonymus 48), took his keys by force, and admitted them: Leo Gramm. 252, Georg. Mon. Cont. 838, Ps.-Symeon 685 (all read: Ἀρταβάσδῳ ἑταιριάρχῃ, or similar). His name indicates Armenian origin, suggesting that the language used by Eulogios 1 was Armenian.
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