pursuers for several months before being captured. The exact timing of Justinian IIs siege and Tiberius capture is convoluted. According to the numismatist Philip Grierson, Justinian II entered the city on 21 August, however, according to Byzantist Constance Head, Justinian II seized the city on 10 July, and the 21 August date is instead the date where Tiberius was captured in Sozopolis, or else the date when he was transported back to Constantinople. Six months later, probably on 15 February, Justinian II had both Leontius and Tiberius dragged to the Hippodrome and publicly humiliated, before being taken away to the Kynegion and beheaded. Their bodies were initially thrown into the sea, but were later recovered and buried in a church on the island of Prote. Legacy Constance Head comments that although little is known of Tiberius, the evidence points to him being a "conscientious and effective ruler", and states that he might be remembered as "one of the truly great emperors of Byzantium" if he had reigned longer. Kaegi states that succeeding dynasties of the Byzantine Empire, and their associated historians, tend to blame the permanent loss of Byzantine Africa upon Tiberius, although he remarks that, by the time Tiberius took the throne, it was far too late for the Byzantines to restore their control. Family Tiberius had a son, Theodosius, who became bishop of Ephesus by 729, presided over the Council of Hieria in 754, and was a confidant of Emperors Leo III () and Constantine V (). Byzantine historian Graham Sumner has suggested that this Theodosius may be the same person as later Emperor Theodosius III (). Sumner presents the evidence that both figures held the Bishopric of Ephesus at similar times: Emperor Theodosius became bishop after 716, according to the Chronicon Altinate, and Theodosius the son of Tiberius became bishop by 729, suggesting they may be the same person. Byzantine historians Cyril Mango and Roger Scott do not view this theory as likely, as it would mean that Emperor Theodosius had to have lived for thirty more years after his abdication. The period that Tiberius ruled in, the Twenty Years' Anarchy, was so fraught with strife that it is common that not even the names of the emperors' spouses have been retained. References Notes Citations Bibliography 7th-century Byzantine emperors 8th-century Byzantine emperors Byzantine admirals 7th-century births 706 deaths Twenty Years' Anarchy 690s in the Byzantine Empire 700s