Lamaris 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M IX |
| PmbZ No. | 4221 |
| Variant Names | Lamari; Labaris; Damarios |
| Locations | Constantinople (workplace); Constantinople (residence); Constantinople |
| Occupation | Engineer |
| Titles | Mechanikos (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) |
Lamaris 1's name is variously spelt: τὸν λεγόμενον Λάβαριν, Leo Gramm. 248, Theod. Mel. 173; τοῦ λεγομένου Λάμαρι, Ps.-Symeon 681; τὸν λεγόμενον Δαμάριον, Georg. Mon. Cont. 834. An engineer (μηχανικός), on the orders of Michael III (Michael 11) he removed the corpse of Constantine V Caballinos (Konstantinos 7) from its sarcophagus and took it to the emperor; he probably did the same with the corpse of the patriarch Ioannes (Ioannes 5) and also may have sawn up the sarcophagus of Constantine V Copronymus (Konstantinos 7) for use in the new church built by Michael 11 at the palace at the Pharos: Leo Gramm. 248-249, Georg. Mon. Cont. 834-835, Ps.-Symeon 681. Cf. Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, p. 161.
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