Anonymus 177 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Dates | 711 (taq) / 711 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 10834 |
| Ethnicity | Indian |
| Locations | Constantinople (workplace); Constantinople (residence); Constantinople |
| Occupation | Cook |
| Textual Sources | Nicephorus, 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) |
Anonymus 177 was an Indian (Ἰνδῷ ὄντι), employed as a cook (μαγείρῳ) by Elias 1; described as ugly; when Elias 1 rebelled against Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1), the emperor killed Elias 1's children and forced his wife (Anonyma 14) to marry the cook: Theoph. AM 6202, cf. Nic. Brev. de Boor 46, Mango 45.
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