Late Antique Historiography

List of East Syrian metropolitans

Title(s):

List of East Syrian metropolitans
ܝܘܒܠ ܙܒ̈ܢܐ ܕܡܝܛܪ̈ܦܘܠܝܛܐ
(yūbāl zabnē d-mīṭrūpūlīṭē, Chronology of the metropolitans)
ܝܘܒܠ ܕܡܝܛܪ̈ܦܘܠܝܛܐ
(yūbāl d-mīṭrūpūlīṭē, Series of metropolitans)
Series metropolitarum

Author:

Anonymous (List of East Syrian metropolitans)

Period covered:

At least 758/759-913/914

Language:

Syriac

State of Preservation:

Fragmentary

Genre:

Remarks:

The work is used as a witness for the chronological equivalence between the Hegira and the era of the Greeks.

Edition - Translation:

Fragments:

Elias of Nisibis, Chronicle [Brooks 1910 (ed.): 175, 202]

Users:

Elias of Nisibis

Sources:

Bibliography:

E.W. Brooks (1910) (tr.) Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni opus chronologicum. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 62: Scriptores Syri, 23). Paris - Leipzig.
E.W. Brooks (1910) (ed.) Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni opus chronologicum. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 62: Scriptores Syri, 21). Paris - Leipzig.
L.I. Conrad (1990) 'Syriac perspectives on Bilād al-Shām during the Abbasid period'. In: Bilād al-Shām during the Abbasid Period: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on the history of Bilad al-Sham, ed. M.A. al-Bakhit - R. Schick. Amman: 1-44, esp 20.