Thebit 2

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE IX
Dates812 (taq) / 812 (tpq)
Variant NamesThebith;
Thabit;
t'byt
ReligionMuslim
EthnicityArab
LocationsCilicia (officeplace);
Cilicia
TitlesGovernor, Cilicia (office)
Textual SourcesChronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (chronicle);
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)

Thebit 2 was an Arab general; in August 812 (indiction five) he raided imperial territory (Theophanes says that he marched against the Christians Θεβὶθ κατὰ Χριστιανῶν ἐπεστράτευσεν); he was met and defeated by the strategos of the Anatolikoi, Leo 15: Theoph. AM 6304. He was presumably an Arab commander on the frontier with the empire. He was Thabit b. Nasr; see Mango and Scott, Theophanes, p. 681, n. 21.

Thebit 2 is presumably identical with the man called Thebit (T'byt) who was in charge of Cilicia in c. 810/812: Chron. 1234, ¤196 (II, p. 10) ("T'byt, who was in authority over Cilicia, posted guards over the entrances of Tur Ukama (the Black Mountain) so that no one could enter or leave without his permission").

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