Anonymi 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M VII |
| Dates | 655 (taq) / 654 (tpq) |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Constantinople; Tripolis (Phoenice) (residence); Tripolis (Phoenice); Phoinix (Lycia) |
| Textual Sources | Bar Hebraeus, Chronographia, tr. E. A. W. Budge, The Chronography of Abu 'l-Faraj (London, 1932; repr. Amsterdam, 1976) (history); 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); Elias Barshinaya, Chronicle (Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni, Opus chronologicum, pars prior, ed. and tr. E. W. Brooks, CSCO 62 and CSCO 63 (1910) (chronicle); Michael the Syrian, Chronicle, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, La chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris, 1899-1904) (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) |
Anonymi 1 were the two sons of Boukinator 1 (υἱοὶ Βουκινάτορος), they were zealous Christians (ζήλῳ θεοῦ); in 654/655 they freed prisoners in Tripolis in Phoinice, killed the emir (τὸν ἀμηρᾶν τῆς πόλεως) Anonymus 3 and his men, burnt materials assembled for shipbuilding (τὴν ἀποσκευὴν) and sailed away to the Roman empire; later, in a sea- battle off Phoenix in Lycia, one of them lost his life to ensure the escape of the emperor Constans II (Konstans 1): Theoph. AM 6146, cf. Chron. 1234, §132 (p. 275) (a son of Boukinator 1 helped the king escape from the royal ship, then took his place and was killed by the Arabs; dated in year 966 of the Greeks, 13 of Constans, 37 of the Arabs, and 9 of Othman), Mich. Syr. II 446, Bar Hebr., pp. 98-99. Two Roman boys who had been taken prisoner and whom Mu`awiya 1 trusted set many Roman captives in Tripolis free and with them seized the ships of Mu`awiya 1, destroyed many and sailed back to Constantinople in the remainder: Elias, Chron., p. 138, 15-25 = p. 67.
Perhaps identical with "two zealous men" who with their followers burnt the ships that Mu`awiya 1 had prepared for an attack in Constantinople, in AH 37 (June 657/June 658): Bar Hebr., p. 98.
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