Thebit 2 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E IX |
Dates | 812 (taq) / 812 (tpq) |
Variant Names | Thebith; Thabit; t'byt |
Religion | Muslim |
Ethnicity | Arab |
Locations | Cilicia (officeplace); Cilicia |
Titles | Governor, Cilicia (office) |
Textual Sources | Chronicon 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 (
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