Sebukht

Sebukht was a 6th-century ambassador of the Sasanian King of Kings (shahanshah) Khosrow I (r. 531–579). Seemingly a Christian, Sebukht was sent to the Byzantine capital of Constantinople in 572 to collect the annual payment of 500 pounds of gold which was part of the terms of the Fifty-Year Peace Treaty of 562. He was, however, dismissed by emperor Justin II (r. 565–574), who sent his general Marcian against the Sasanians, thus initiating the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 572–591.

Sources

• Rezakhani, Khodadad (2018). "Sebuxt". In Nicholson, Oliver (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866277-8.