Theophylaktos 4 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E VIII |
| Dates | 709 (taq) / 709 (tpq) |
| Variant Names | T'wpylqyt' |
| Locations | Tyana (Cappadocia) |
| Titles | Strategos (office) |
| Textual Sources | Chronicon Anonymi ad annum 1234 pertinens, ed. and tr. J.-B. Chabot, I = CSCO 81-82 (Paris, 1916-20), II = CSCO 109 (Louvain, 1937) (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) |
Probably in 709 Theophylaktos 4 was one of the two strategoi sent by Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1) against the Arabs who were besieging Tyana; his colleague was Theodoros 8; their army, a mixture of regular soldiers and rustic levies, was heavily defeated: Theoph. AM 6201 (Θεοφύλακτον τὸν Σαλιβᾶν), cf. Nic. Brev. 43-44. This event is recorded also in Chron. 1234, §153 (p. 298): after a siege of nine months, "Theophylaktos the commander was sent to it, and with him a great army, and prepared to battle with the Arabs, but the Romans were routed and 40,000 of them were killed" (dated in year 1019 Sel., i.e. 707/708). See further Theodoros 8 and on the date see Maslama 1. To judge by his names, he was either a relation of, or identical with, Justinian II's (Ioustinianos 1) earlier ally, Salibas 1.
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