Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin 996, duk da haka, Sama'ila, bayan tserewarsa daga bala'in yaƙin Spercheios, ya saki Ashot kuma ya aurar da shi ga 'yarsa Miroslava. A cewar masanin tarihin Byzantine John Skylitzes, ta ƙarshe ta ƙaunaci ƙaunataccen Byzantine, kuma ta yi barazanar kashe kanta idan Sama'ila bai yarda su yi aure ba. Sama'ila ya aika da ma'auratan zuwa Dyrrhachium, inda Ashot ya zama gwamna. Da zarar a can, Ashot ya kulla dangantaka da gwamnatin Byzantine, wanda babban mashahurin birnin, John Chryselios, ya taimaka, wanda ya ba da birnin don musayar lakabi ga kansa da 'ya'yansa maza. Ashot da Miroslava sun gudu zuwa Constantinople a cikin jirgin yakin Byzantine, kuma ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, rundunar sojojin Byzantine ta bayyana a Dyrrhachium karkashin Eustathios Daphnomeles, kuma garin ya koma mulkin Byzantine. A Constantinople, Sarkin Basil ya naɗa Ashot "magistros" da matarsa "zoste patrikia". Babu wani abu da aka sani game da su. Ba a san lokacin da wannan labarin ya faru ba; yawanci ana yin kwanan wata ba da daɗewa ba bayan 997/8 bisa ga labarin Skylitzes. Duk da haka, yana yiwuwa wannan lamarin ya faru ne a ƙarshen 1018, a ƙarshen yakin Bulgarian
, tunda tarihin Skylitzes galibi ba abin dogaro bane; yayin da tarihin Italiyanci na Lupus Protospatharius ya ba da kwanan wata daban don dawo da Dyrrhachium, 1004/5, kuma bai ambaci Ashot ba.