Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan yakin Spercheios a 997, Sama'ila ya sanya surukinsa Ashot Taronites, wani fursuna na Byzantine wanda ya auri 'yarsa Miroslava, gwamnan birnin. A kusan 1005, duk da haka, Ashot da Miroslava, tare da yarda da Chryselios, sun gudu a kan jirgin ruwan Byzantine zuwa Constantinople, suna ɗauke da wasiƙar Chryselios wanda ya yi alkawarin ba da birnin ga sarkin Byzantine, Basil II (r. 976<unk>1025), a musayar matsayin "patrikios" don kansa da 'ya'yansa maza biyu. Ba da daɗewa ba, rundunar sojojin Byzantine ta bayyana a kusa da birnin a ƙarƙashin Eustathios Daphnomeles, kuma birnin ya koma mulkin Byzantine, amma Chryselios ya mutu a halin yanzu. Duk da haka, yana yiwuwa wannan lamarin ya faru ne a ƙarshen 1018, a ƙarshen yakin Bulgarian
, tunda tarihin asalin yakin, John Skylitzes, bai bayyana ba; yayin da tarihin Italiyanci na Lupus Protospatharius ya ba da kwanan wata daban don dawo da Dyrrhachium, 1004/5, kuma bai ambaci Chryselios kwata-kwata ba.