Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Zvisinei, muna 996, Samueri, mushure mekutiza kwake muhondo ine njodzi yeSpercheios, akasunungura Ashot ndokuroora mwanasikana wake Miroslava. Maererano nomunyori wenhau dzakaitika weByzantine John Skylitzes, wokupedzisira uyu akanga awira murudo rwakadzama nomusungwa weByzantine, uye akatyisidzira kuzviuraya kana Samueri asina kubvumira kuti varoorane. Samueri akatumira vaviri vacho kuDyrrhachium, uko Ashot akava gavhuna. Ashot akasvika ikoko, akatanga kuonana nehurumende yeByzantium, achibatsirwa nomukuru mukuru weguta racho, John Chryselios, uyo akati aizopa guta racho achichinjanisa nokuwana mazita ake nevanakomana vake. Ashot naMiroslava vakatizira kuConstantinople vari mungarava yehondo yeByzantine, uye nguva pfupi yapfuura, boka revaByzantine rakaonekwa paDyrrhachium riri pasi paEustathios Daphnomeles, uye guta rakadzokera kuByzantine. MuConstantinople, Mambo Basil akatumidza Ashot kuti "magistros" uye mudzimai wake kuti "zoste patrikia". Hapana chimwezve chinozivikanwa nezvavo. Nguva yechiitiko ichi hainyatsozivikanwi; inowanzotorwa nguva pfupi pashure pa997/8 maererano nenhoroondo yaSkylitzes. Zvisinei, zvinobvira kuti chiitiko ichi chakaitika chaizvoizvo mukupera kwa 1018, pamugumo wehondo yeBulgaria
, sezvo nhoroondo yaSkylitzes isinganyatso kuvimbika; nepo chinyorwa cheItaly cheLupus Protospatharius chichipa zuva rakasiyana zvachose rekudzorerwa kweDyrrhachium, 1004/5, uye hachitauri Ashot.