Elias 10 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L IX |
| Dates | 867 (taq) / 867 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 1503 |
| Locations | Constantinople; Princes' Islands |
| Titles | Protospatharios (dignity); Droungarios of the basilikon ploïmon (office) |
| Textual Sources | Vita Ignatii Patriarchae, by Nicetas (BHG 817), PG 105.488-574) (hagiography) |
| Seal Sources | Mordtmann, A, Sur les sceaux et les plombs byzantins, Conférence tenue dans la Société Littéraire Grecque (Hellenikos Philologikos Syllogos) (Constantinople, 1873); Schlumberger, G. Sigillographie de l'empire byzantin (Paris, 1884) |
Elias 10 was droungarios of the imperial fleet (Ἠλίαν τὸν περιφανέστατον τοῦ βασιλικοῦ στόλου δρουγγάριον); on 26 September 867 he was sent by the emperor Basil I (Basilios 7) to bring the patriarch Ignatios 1 back from exile in the Princes' Islands to Constantinople with all honour in the imperial dromon: Nicetas, Vita Ignatii 540B.
He is probably to be identified with the protospatharios and droungarios of the imperial fleet, who owned a seal dateable to the ninth century: Schlumberger, Sig., p. 338, no. 1 (= Mordtmann, Conference, p. 40). The text given by Schlumberger reads: Κ(υρι)ε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Ἠλίᾳ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ δρουγγαρίῳ τοῦ βασιλικοῦ πλωΐμου. On the identification, see Schlumberger's note.
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