Isaias 5

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
FloruitM/L VIII
PmbZ No.2574
ReligionChristian
LocationsEmesa (Syria) (residence)
Textual SourcesTheophanes 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)

Isaias 5 (τοῦ Ἡσαΐου) was a Christian inhabitant of Emesa in Syria; his daughter-in-law (Anonyma 110) suffered martyrdom at the hands of Mouchesias 1 in 779/780 following her conversion from Islam to Christianity: Theoph. AM 6272. Cf. Anonymus 775 (his son).

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