Theophanes 20 was also called Lardotyros; he was the strategos of Crete who executed the iconophile Paulos 50 at Herakleion for refusing to trample on an icon of Christ: Vita Steph. Iun. 160, 12-13 (1164B-D) (Θεοφάνους ἀρχισατράπου τῆς νήσου τὸ ἐπίκλην Λαρδοτύρου; also styled στρατηγός). The date was during the reign of Constantine V (Konstantinos 7), and the story was told probably in 764 by Antonios 18 to the monks imprisoned with Stephanos 2 (Stephen the Younger) in the praitorion prison at Constantinople. See Rochow, Konstantin V, 242-243. On the name "Lardotyros", see Winkelmann, Quellenstudien, 149, 180.

Later liturgical texts call him the strategos of Cyprus; see G. Spyridakis, "The Thema of Crete before the Occupation of the Island by the Arabs", EEBS 21 (1951) 64-66, esp. p. 65, n. 3. Cf. also Auz py p. 258, n. 378.

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