Symbatios 7 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 813 (taq) / 813 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 6462 |
| Variant Names | Sabbatios |
| Religion | Christian; Iconoclast |
| Locations | Philomelion (Pisidia) (residence); Philomelion (Pisidia) |
| Occupation | Monk |
| Textual Sources | Genesii, Josephi, Regum Libri Quattuor, eds. A. Lesmüller-Werner and I. Thurn, CFHB 14 (Berlin, 1978) (history); Theophanes Continuatus, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838) (history); Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history) |
Symbatios 7 is called: Symbatios (Theoph. Cont.); Sabbatios (Scylitzes, Genesius); unnamed (Zonaras). A monk living at Philomelion in 813 in the former dwelling of the monk (Anonymus 57) who in 803 had foretold the throne for Leo V (Leo 15); in 813 he openly reviled Leo 15 for worshipping images and prophesied for him a short reign unless he condemned the practice (cf. Anonymus 593); the historical tradition blamed him for turning Leo 15 into an iconoclast: Theoph. Cont. I 15 (p. 26), Scyl., pp. 14-15, Genesius I 13, Zon. XV 19. 21-23.
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