Akai 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Floruit | M VIII |
| Dates | 748 (taq) / 755 (tpq) |
| Locations | Jazirah; Jazirah (officeplace) |
| Titles | Governor, Jazirah (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); Chronique de Denys de Tell-Mahré, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot (Paris, 1895); tr. A. Palmer, The Seventh Century in West-Syrian Chronicles (Liverpool, 1993), pp. 54-65 (chronicle) |
Akai 1 was the first governor of Gezirtha (i.e. Jazirah): Pseudo-Dion., Chron., p. 195, lines 14ff. = p. 150. The date was c. 1060 Sel. (AD 748/749). In the year 1066 Sel. (AD 754/755) he assembled a large army of Persians and Arabs and sent it under his unnamed son (Ibn Akai; see Khalid 3) against Kusan 1, who had invaded Hanzit (Anzitene) with an army composed of Romans and Urtayans: Pseudo-Dion., Chron., p. 208, lines 21-226 = p. 162. His son was Khalid 3: Chron. 1234, §183 (p. 337).
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