Anonymus 175 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M IX |
| Dates | 845 (taq) / 845 (tpq) |
| Religion | Muslim |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Locations | Samarra |
| Titles | Officer (office) |
| Textual Sources | Martyres XLII Amorienses (BHG 1211) (ed. B. Vasilievskij and P. Nikitin, Mémoires de l' Académie imp. de Saint-Pétersbourg, 8th series, 7.2 (1905), 1-7; ed. Latyshev, Menologium I 190-97 (hagiography); Theophanes Continuatus, ed. I. Bekker (Bonn, 1838) (history) |
Anonymus 175 was an Arab officer or noble (τὶς ἄρχων); sent with an armed escort by the caliph (Al-Wathiq 1) to convey the leaders of the Forty-Two Martyrs of Amorion to execution; the date was 6 March 845: Mart. XLII Amor. (BHG 1211), p. 5, Theoph. Cont. III 36 (p. 133).
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