Petronas 3 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | M/L VIII |
| Dates | 772 (taq) / 772 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 5919 |
| Locations | Kibyrrhaiotai (officeplace); Kibyrrhaiotai |
| Titles | Protospatharios (dignity); Strategos, Kibyrrhaiotai (office) |
| Textual Sources | Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Chronographia Tripartita (Latin translation of the Chronographia of Theophanes), ed. C. de Boor, Theophanes, Chronographia II (Leipzig, 1885), pp. 31-346 (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) |
In 772 Petronas 3 was spatharios (or perhaps protospatharios) and strategos of the Kibyrrhaiotai; he commanded his fleet when it sailed to the harbour of Syke in Isauria against the Arab general Banakas 1: Theoph. AM 6263 (ὁ δὲ στόλος τῶν Κιβυραιωτῶν ... μετὰ Πετρωνᾶ [πρωτο]σπαθαρίου καὶ στρατηγοῦ αὐτῶν; one MS and Anastasius Bibliothecarius have σπαθαρίου, two other MSS have πρωτοσπαθαρίου). See Winkelmann, Rangstruktur, p. 98 (a collection of evidence which suggests that Petronas 3 could have been either spatharios or protospatharios).
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