 Kourkouas was replaced by a certain <unk> , who was almost immediately defeated by Sayf al @-@ Dawla in December while raiding near Aleppo . On 16 December , Romanos I himself was deposed by Stephen and Constantine and banished to a monastery on the island of Prote . A few weeks later , on 26 January , another coup removed the two young Lekapenoi from power and restored the sole imperial authority to Constantine VII . Kourkouas himself appears to have soon returned to imperial favour : Constantine provided the money for the repair of Kourkouas 's palace after it was damaged by an earthquake , and in early 946 , he is recorded as having been sent with the magistros Kosmas to negotiate a prisoner exchange with the Arabs of Tarsus . Nothing further is known about him . 
