Anonymus 729 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L VIII |
| Dates | 766 (taq) / 767 (tpq) |
| Locations | Syria (Frontier of) |
| Titles | Commander (office) |
| Textual Sources | 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) |
In the year 1078 Sel. (766/767) Anonymus 729 was a Roman commander who with 12,000 cavalry won a victory over the Arabs; during his return he came across another Arab force, returning from a successful raid into the lands of the Romans and encamped on a level space among the hills near the frontier of Syria where he had also planned to make camp; the Arab force, under Radad 1 and Malik 5, was trapped and the Romans, augmenting their forces with local citizens and troops from the vicinity, attacked and routed them: Pseudo-Dion., Chron., pp. 235, 21-238, 26 = pp. 184-187.
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