Orabe 1 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E IX |
| Dates | 817 (taq) / 817 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 5660 |
| Religion | Christian; Iconoclast |
| Locations | Thrakesioi (officeplace); Thrakesioi |
| Titles | Strategos, Thrakesion (office) |
| Textual Sources | Vita A Theodori Studitae, Auctore Theodoro Daphnopate? (BHG 1755), PG 99. 113-232 (hagiography); Vita B Theodori Studitae, Auctore Michaele Monacho Studita (BHG 1754), PG. 99. 233-328 (hagiography); Vita C Theodori Studitae, Auctore Incerto (BHG 1755d), ed. B. Latyshev, "Vita S. Theodori Studitae in codice Mosquensi musei Rumianzoviani no 520", VV 21 (1914), pp. 258-304 (hagiography) |
Orabe 1 was strategos, also styled Asiarches; he was allegedly appointed to his post because of his strong iconoclast views (cf. Vita B, cited below); in c. 817/818 Orabe 1 was informed by one of his local bishops that Theodore the Stoudite (Theodoros 15), then in exile at Boneta, was still influencing clergy to support the veneration of icons; he reported this matter to the emperor and to the strategos of the Anatolikoi: Vita B Theod. Stud. 292B (πρὸς τὸν στρατηγὸν ... Ἦν δὲ οὗτος Ὀραβὲ ἀνὴρ τῷ ὄντι ἀλιτήμων καὶ πλήρης ἡμερῶν πονηρῶν, ὅστις καὶ διὰ τὸ δυσφημεῖν ἀθέῳ γλώττῃ εἰς τὰς ἱερὰς εἰκόνας τὴν στρατηγικὴν ἐκληρώσατο εὐδαιμονίαν), Vita A Theod. Stud. 193C (τῷ Ἀσιάρχῃ), Vita C Theod. Stud. §46, p. 286 (τὸν τῆς χώρας, i.e. Asia, στρατηγὸν ... ἄγριος ὢν καὶ ἀνήμερος). He was presumably strategos of the Thrakesioi, in c. 817. Cf. also Anonymus 573.
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