Constantine his son, 8 years, (64) Leo the son of Constantine, 5 years, (65) Constantine with his orthodox mother Irene, 10 years. In their (8th year) the second council in Nicaea took place. (66) Constantine alone, 8 years, (67) his mother Irene again, 5 years, 2 months, (68) Nicephorus, 7 years (9 months), (69) Stauracius (his son, 1 year) 1 month, (70) Michael, 1 year, 9 months, (71) Leo, 7 years, 5 months, (72) Michael, 8 years, 9 months, (73) Theophilus, 12 years, 3 months. [12] (74) Theodora his wife and Michael his son, (20?) years, (75) (209b) Basil the Macedonian, 19 years, (76) Leo his son, 27 years, (77) Alexander [the brother of Leo], 1 year, 1 month, (78) Constantine, the son of Leo, with his mother Zoe, 7 years, (79) Romanos the Armenian, the father-in-law of that Constantine, [2]7 years, (80) Constantine the emperor born-in-the-purple, his second [reign], 15 years, (81) Romanos the son of Constantine, 3 years, 4 months, (82) Basil and Constantine the sons of Romanos with their mother Theophano, [?] months, (83) Nicephorus Phocas the Cappadocian, the pious and just, [?] years, 4 months, (84) John Tzimiskes, 3 years, (85) Basil the son of Romanos, who made the isocod[icia] and the 1285 great novel, reigned for a second time, 53 years, (86) Constantine his brother, 3 years, (87) Romanos Argyros, drowned in the pool of Blachernae, [5] years, (87) Michael the Paphlagonian, through the cooperation of his brother John the orphanotrophos, 7 years, 3 months, (89) Michael from Caesarea, his nephew the Calaphates, who was blinded in the Sigma by Nicholas the eparch, who was also the parakoimomenos, and the other archons, 9 months, (90) Constantine Monomachos 920, 12 years, [?] months, (91) Michael from Basil[eion], 1 year, (92) Theodora the Porphyrogenita, 2 years. (93) Isaac Comnenus, 3 years, and having fallen ill he was tonsured, having designated Constantine Doukas as emperor, and he himself became a monk in the Stoudios. (94) Constantine Doukas, 8 years, 3 months, and dying, he left his wife and children to reign with terrible oaths and handwritten signatures of both the synod and the senate. (95) Eudocia, the wife of Doukas, reigned with her children for 3 years, and she took Diogenes as her husband, proclaiming him emperor; (96) and he ruled from the month of January in the year 570; this same Romanos Diogenes reigned for 3 years; having campaigned against the Persians in various ways, in his third campaign he was taken captive by the Sultan of the Turks. (97) But when the lady Eudocia learned this, she wrote to the themes and the castles not to receive him, if he should be saved from captivity, but to despise and abominate him. (98) And Michael Doukas was restored again along with his mother Eudocia, (99) whom he, having removed from the palace, tonsured a nun, remaining himself as sole ruler. And having ruled for 10 years, he was deposed by Nicephorus Botaniates, who also ruled for 3 years, and was deposed by the lord Alexios, (100) who also began to reign on the 2nd of the month of April, indiction 4, of the year 589, and he reigned for 37 years, 5 months. (101) John the Porphyrogenitus, his son, began to reign in the month of August, indiction 11, of the year 620, and he reigned for 25 years. [And this is] also written [concerning the emperors of the Rom.]: A sword, Romanos; Victor, Nicephorus; healing, John Tzimiskes; [h]arming, Basil; the world; Constantine, a club; Romanos, a little; Michael, a little; Michael of the world; Constantine... ransom [Michael...] you bring. From the lord Alexios 921 Comnenus there are 3 other reigns, the number of which happens to be hidden; lastly, as the historian says, from here until the consummation, 8 are spok[en] of; the reigns of those who are to come [are] of the Antichrist, another historian says; [and] altogether the [number of emperors is] 101... ; I took ... on the ... of November [in the year] 39 ... the enemy for year 661. On November 1[3], on Friday [13 Nov. 1153, Friday].
Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη ηʹ, (64) Λέων ὁ υἱὸς Κωνσταντίνου ἔτη εʹ, (65) Κωνσταντῖνος σὺν τῇ ὀρθοδόξῳ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ Εἰρήνῃ ἔτη ιʹ. Τούτων (ἔτος ηʹ) γέγονεν ἡ ἐν Νικαίᾳ σύνοδος τὸ βʹ. (66) Κωνσταντῖνος μόνος ἔτη ηʹ, (67) ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ Εἰρήνη πάλιν ἔτη εʹ μῆνας βʹ, (68) Νικηφόρος ἔτη ζʹ (μῆνας θʹ), (69) Σταυράκιος (ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτος) αʹ μῆνα αʹ, (70) Μιχαὴλ ἔτος αʹ μῆνας θʹ, (71) Λέων ἔτη ζʹ μῆνας εʹ, (72) Μιχαὴλ ἔτη η μῆνας θʹ, (73) Θεόφιλος ἔτη ιβʹ μῆνας γʹ. [ιβʹ] (74) Θεοδώρα ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ Μιχαὴλ ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη (κʹ ?), (75) (209b) Βασίλειος ὁ Μακεδὼν ἔτη ιθʹ, (76) Λέων ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη κζʹ, (77) Ἀλέξανδρος [ὁ ἀδελφὸς Λέοντος] ἔτος αʹ μῆνα αʹ, (78) Κωνσταντῖνος, ὁ υἱὸς Λέοντος, μετὰ τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ Ζωῆς ἔτη ζʹ, (79) Ῥωμανὸς ὁ Ἀρμενιακὸς, ὁ πενθερὸς αὐτοῦ τοῦ Κωνσταντίνου, ἔτη [κ]ζʹ, (80) Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ βασιλεὺς πορφυρογέννητος, αὐτοῦ τὸ βʹ, ἔτη ιεʹ, (81) Ῥωμανὸς ὁ υἱὸς Κωνσταντίνου ἔτη γʹ μῆνας δʹ, (82) Βασίλειος καὶ Κωνσταντῖνος οἱ υἱοὶ Ῥωμανοῦ μετὰ τῆς μητρὸς αὐτῶν Θεοφανοῦς, μῆνας ʹ, (83) Νικηφόρος Καππάδοξ ὁ Φωκᾶς ὁ εὐσεβὴς καὶ φιλοδίκαιος, ἔτη ʹ μῆνας δʹ, (84) Ἰω. ὁ Τζιμισχῆς ἔτη γʹ, (85) Βασίλειος ὁ υἱὸς Ῥωμανοῦ τοῦ ποιήσαντος τὰ ἰσοκοδ[ίκια] καὶ τὴν 1285 μεγάλην νεαρὰν, ἐβασίλευσε τὸ βʹ, ἔτη νγʹ, (86) Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ ἔτη γʹ, (87) Ῥωμανὸς ὁ Ἀργυρὸς ἐν τῇ κολυμβήθρᾳ τῶν Βλαχερνῶν πνιγεὶς, ἔτη [εʹ], (87) Μιχαὴλ ὁ Παφλαγὼν διὰ συνεργείας Ἰωάννου ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ ὀρφανοτρόφου, ἔτη ζʹ μῆνας γʹ, (89) Μιχαὴλ ὁ ἀπὸ Καισαρείας, ὁ ἀνεψιὸς αὐτοῦ ὁ Καλαφάτος, ὁ τυφλωθεὶς ἐν τῷ Σίγματι παρὰ Νικολάου ἐπάρχου τοῦ καὶ παρακοιμωμένου καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ἀρχόντων, μῆνας θʹ, (90) Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ Μονομάχος 920 ἔτη ιβʹ μῆνας ʹ, (91) Μιχαὴλ ὁ ἀπὸ Βασιλ[είου] ἔτος αʹ, (92) Θεοδώρα ἡ Πορφυρογέννητος, ἔτη βʹ. (93) Ἰσαάκιος ὁ Κομνηνὸς ἔτη γʹ, καὶ νοσήσας ἀπεκάρη προβαλλόμενος βασιλέα Κωνσταντῖνον τὸν ∆οῦκα, αὐτὸς δὲ ἐμονάχησεν ἐν τοῖς Στουδίου. (94) Κωνσταντῖνος ὁ ∆οῦκας ἔτη ηʹ μῆνας γʹ, καὶ τελευτῶν κατέλιπε βασιλεύειν μετὰ φρικτῶν ὅρκων καὶ ἰδιοχείρων συνόδου τε καὶ τῆς συγκλήτου τὴν γυναῖκα αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺς παῖδας. (95) Εὐδοκία ἡ τοῦ ∆ουκὸς ἐβασίλευσε μετὰ τῶν τέκνων αὐτῆς ἔτη γʹ, καὶ ἔλαβεν ἄνδρα τὸν ∆ιογένην ἀναγορεύσασα τοῦτον βασιλέα· (96) καὶ ἐκράτησεν ἀπὸ Ἰανουαρίου μηνὸς ἔτους φοʹ· ὁ αὐτὸς Ῥωμανὸς ὁ ∆ιογένης ἐβασίλευσε χρόνους γʹ· στρατεύσας δὲ κατὰ Περσῶν διαφόρως, ἐν τῇ γʹ αὐτοῦ ἐκστρατείᾳ ἐκρατήθη αἰχμάλωτος παρὰ τοῦ Σουλτάνου τῶν Τούρκων. (97) Τοῦτο δὲ μαθοῦσα Εὐδοκία ἡ δέσποινα γράφει πρὸς τὰ θέματα καὶ τὰ κάστρα τοῦ μὴ δέξασθαι αὐτὸν, εἰ διασωθείη ἀπὸ τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας, ἀλλ' ἐξουθενεῖν αὐτὸν καὶ ἀποβδελύττεσθαι. (98) Καὶ αὖθις ἀπεκατεστάθη Μιχαὴλ ὁ ∆οῦκας ἅμα τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ Εὐδοκίᾳ, (99) ἣν καὶ καταβιβάσας τοῦ παλατίου ἀπέκειρε μοναχὴν, μοναρχήσας αὐτὸς καταλειφθείς. Καὶ κρατήσας χρόνους ιʹ καταβιβάζεται παρὰ Νικηφόρου τοῦ Βοτονιάτου, ὃς καὶ ἐκράτησε χρόνους γʹ, καὶ κατεβιβάσθη παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου Ἀλεξίου, (100) ὃς καὶ ἐβασίλευσε κατὰ τὴν βʹ τοῦ Ἀπριλλίου μηνὸς ἰνδ. δʹ τοῦ φπθʹ ἔτους, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη λζʹ μῆνας εʹ. (101) Ἰω. ὁ Πορφυρογέννητος ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἐβασίλευσε μηνὶ Αὐγούστῳ, ἰνδ. ιαʹ ἔτους χκʹ, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη κεʹ. [Εστι] δ[ὲ] καὶ [τοῦτο περὶ τῶν βασιλέων τῶν Ῥωμ.] γεγραμμένον· Ρομφαία ̔Ρωμανὸσ Νικητοῦ Νικηφόροσ ἰωμένη Ιω. Τζιμισκῆσ [β]λάπτουσα Βασίλειοσ κόσμον· Κωνσταντῖνοσ ῥόπαλον, ̔Ρωμανὸσ μικρὸν Μιχαὴλ μικρὸν Μιχαὴλ κόσμου Κωνσταντῖνος... λύτρα [Μιχαὴλ...] φέρεις. Ἀπὸ τοῦ κυρίου Ἀλεξίου 921 Κομνηνοῦ γʹ εἰσὶν ἕτεραι βασιλεῖαι, ὧν ὁ ἀριθμὸς ἀποκεκρυμμένος τυγχάνει· τελευταῖον, ὡς τὸ ἱστορικόν φησιν, ἀπὸ τῶν ὧδε μέχρι τῆς συντελείας διὰ ηʹ λέγοντ[αι]· εἰ[σὶν] αἱ τῶν μελλόντων βασιλεῖαι, [αἱ] τοῦ Ἀντιχρίστου, ἕτερος ἱστορικός φησιν· [καὶ] ὁμοῦ τὸ [τῶν βασιλέων] ρα... · ἔλαβα ···ρρ··ει νοεμβρίου [ἔτει] λθʹ νώκαρα τὸν πολέμιον ἐπὶ ἔτος χξαʹ. νοεμβρίῳ ι[γʹ] ἡμέρᾳ Παρασκευῆς[13 Nov. 1153, Veneris die].