Daniel 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE VIII
Dates714 (taq) / 714 (tpq)
PmbZ No.1218
LocationsConstantinople (officeplace);
Constantinople (residence);
Sinope (Helenopontus);
Constantinople;
Sinope (Helenopontus) (birthplace)
TitlesPatrikios (dignity);
Eparch, Constantinople (office)
Textual SourcesNicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (history);
Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle)

A native of Sinope, Daniel 1 was patrikios and eparchos of the Polis (Constantinople) (Δανιὴλ τὸν Σινωπίτην πατρίκιον καὶ ἔπαρχον τῆς πόλεως) in 714, when the new emperor Anastasios II (Anastasios 6) sent him as envoy to the court of the caliph al-Walid (Walid 1), ostensibly for peace talks, but with instructions carefully to observe the caliph's military preparations; he returned to report that a major assault by land and sea was in preparation: Theoph. AM 6206, cf. Nic.Brev. de Boor 49:5-7, Mango 49 (τὸν πατρίκιον ... ὕπαρχον τηνικαῦτα τῆς βασιλίδος ὑπάρχοντα).

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