Aulikalamos 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M VIII |
Dates | 754 (taq) / 754 (tpq) |
PmbZ No. | 697 |
Locations | Nikomedeia (officeplace); Nikomedeia |
Occupation | Tax collector |
Titles | Architelones, Nikomedeia (Bithynia) (office) |
Textual Sources | Vita Stephani Iunioris, by Stephanus Diaconus (BHG 1666), ed. M.-F. Auzépy, La Vie d'Etienne le Jeune par Étienne le diacre. Introduction, édition et traduction (Aldershot, 1997); PG 100. 1069-1186 (hagiography) |
Aulikalamos 1 was the chief collector of taxes in the district around the gulf of Nikomedeia (τὸν ἀρχιτελωνοῦντα τὸν κόλπον τῆς Νικομηδείας φορολόγον ... Αὐλικάλαμον τὸ ἐπίκλην); he was approached by the monk Sergios 52 and agreed to conspire with him to draw up a statement of charges against Stephanos 2 (Stephen the Younger) and the nun Anna 6: Vita Steph. Iun. 131.27 (1125C). They then forwarded the statement to the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7), who was then on campaign against the Bulgars: Vita Steph. Iun. 132.13-15 (1128A). The date was soon after the Council of Hieria, probably in 754 or 755. Later the servant girl of Anna 6 (Anonyma 32), who had supplied false information in return for promises which had not been fulfilled, threatened to expose the plots of Aulikalamos 1 and Kallistos 8 and they therefore arranged a marriage for her, in fulfilment of their original undertaking; Aulikalamos 1 was still tax-collector (ὁ φορολόγος Αὐλικάλαμος); the girl Anonyma 32 married his notarios (see Anonymus 254): Vita Steph. Iun. 175.4-9 (1184A).
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