Anonyma 14

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexF
FloruitE VIII
Dates711 (taq) / 711 (ob.)
PmbZ No.1474A
LocationsConstantinople (residence);
Constantinople
Textual SourcesNicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (history);
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);
Zonaras = Ioannis Zonarae Epitome Historiarum, libri XIII-XVIII, ed. Th. Büttner-Wobst, (Bonn, 1897) (history)

Anonyma 14 was the wife of Elias 1; in 711, following her husband's revolt, their young children were murdered by the emperor Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1) and she was forced to marry her Indian cook (Anonymus 177): Theoph. AM 6202, Nic. Brev. de Boor 46, Mango 45, Zon. XIV 25. 18 (ἅ μαθὼν Ἰουστινιανὸς τοὺς μὲν τοῦ Ἡλία παῖδας ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ κατέσφαξε τῆς μητρός, ἐκείνην δὲ δούλῳ αὐτῆς Ἰνδῷ μαγείρῳ συνέζευξεν).

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