Heraclius and the Persian patrician meet at Arabissus
The Syriac chronicle reports that Heraclius and the Persian patrician called Shahruroz in Cowper’s rendering met at a northern site identified as Arabissus.
What this does and does not establish
One encounter is counted. Cowper marks the following place epithet as uncertain. His English rendering and Brooks’s printed Syriac are two editions of one chronicle, not independent witnesses. The preceding earthquake is not located at Arabissus by this claim.
- Quoted from a published English translation, not from the original-language text.
- Region
- Western Asia
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- Seleucid year 940, Tammuz
- How we use it
- The source gives a month without a day.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
In the West Syrian autumn-start Seleucid era, year 940 spans autumn AD 628 to autumn 629. Tammuz (July) in that year is securely in Julian AD 629. The earlier questioned year for the departure from Alexandria in Cowper is a different notice. Compare Brooks p. 147 and Cowper pp. 85–86.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Syriac Miscellanies, translated annal for Seleucid 940
Anonymous Syriac annalist; B. Harris Cowper, historical translator
Published English translation, as quoted
in Tammuz of that year, Heraclius, king of the
Romans, and Shahruroz, the Patrician of the Persians, metPlain reading of the quoted text, prepared by AI; the quoted wording governs
In Tammuz of that year, Heraclius, king of the Romans, and Shahruroz, the Persian patrician, met.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Syriac Miscellanies, translated annal for Seleucid 940, Cowper (1861), pp. 85–86 and translator’s note, OCR excerpt; compared with the Brooks original-language facsimile; project English working translation.
Exact source version
797390ec30b6fa8850366a7bb5a4647be9fd74935e6928c8c44f5b6d86df6979Source 2 · Supports the statement
Syriac Miscellanies, translated annal for Seleucid 940
Anonymous Syriac annalist; B. Harris Cowper, historical translator
Published English translation, as quoted
in Coelesyria, at a place in the north whose name is Arabissus
Tripotamus ( ? )Plain reading of the quoted text, prepared by AI; the quoted wording governs
In Coelesyria, at a northern place named Arabissus Tripotamus (the epithet is uncertain).
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Syriac Miscellanies, translated annal for Seleucid 940, Cowper (1861), pp. 85–86 and translator’s note, OCR excerpt; compared with the Brooks original-language facsimile; project English working translation.
Exact source version
797390ec30b6fa8850366a7bb5a4647be9fd74935e6928c8c44f5b6d86df6979Source 3 · Context for reading it
Anonymous Syriac chronicle to 724, annalistic section
Syriac chronicler; E. W. Brooks, edition
Quoted text (Syriac)
ܘܒܗ ܒܫܢܬܐ ܒܬܡܘܙAI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
And in that same year, in Tammuz.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Anonymous Syriac chronicle to 724, annalistic section, 1904 public-domain Syriac edition; see page facsimiles and line numbers, not raw OCR; project English working translation.
Exact source version
c25b82292bf5e215ff6be06da219c75696163e80ec2541de1dddb51197c5647eChecks and changes
Source checked 2026-11-05. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
No correction has been made to this record’s statement or limits.
Revision sgap_arabissos629
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