David A. Michelson, Thomas A. Carlson and Nathan P. Gibson, (eds.), "Pethion — ܦܬܝܘܢ " in last modified August 17, 2016, http://syriaca.org/person/996
    
        
            
                
                    
                        Pethion
                    
                    
                        ܦܬܝܘܢ
                    
                    
                        Pethion
                    
                    
                        Peṯyūn
                    
                    
                        Pethyun
                    
                    
                        Pēthyun
                    
                    
                        Pethiōn
                    
                    
                        Pet(h)jôn
                    
                    
                        Pet(h)jôn
                    
                    http://syriaca.org/person/996
                    http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/SRP|person_996
                    Author of an ecclesiastical history whose accounts regarding Christian physicians were cited by Elijah of Nisibis.
                    8th cent.-9th cent.?
                    Whether this Pethion is to be identified with other Pethions of approximately the same period has been the subject of much discussion. 
                        He must have been active after 765-768, since Elijah of Nisibis cites him for events of this period, and before 1018, the likely date Elijah completed his work. 
                    Thus, as Wright recognized, he cannot be identified with the Catholicos Pethion, who died in 740 or 741. Berti suggests that 
                        he may be the same as Pethion of Elam, the addressee of Catholicos Timothy's letter 9 and the head of the School of Beth Lapaṭ (Gondeshapur). 
                        This would make sense, given the fact that Elijah's citations of Pethion's work have to do with the Christian physician George of the Bokhtishoʿ family connected with 
                        Beth Lapaṭ. The works of Ibn Sīnā (Canon of Medicine) and Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa (History of the Physicians), cite him as  
                        "Pethion the Translator" for events through the 850s. He thus seems to be identified with a Pethion appearing in Ibn al-Nadīm's Fihrist, who was apparently alive after the death 
                        of Ibn Kullāb in 854/855. 
                        For more details, see the entries linked above.
                    
                        East Syrian
                    
                    
                        Clavis Historicorum Tardae Antiquitatis
                        
                        Ecclesiastical history
                        Pethyon
                    
                    
                        Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni opus chronologicum, I [Text]
                        Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium
                        Scriptores Syri
                        Scriptores Syri Series Tertia
                        
                        178-179
                    
                    
                        Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni opus chronologicum, I [Translation]
                        Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium
                        Scriptores Syri
                        Scriptores Syri Series Tertia
                        
                        85
                    
                    
                        A Short History of Syriac Literature
                        
                        194-195
                    
                    
                        Geschichte der syrischen Literatur mit Ausschluß der christlich-palästinensischen Texte
                        
                        214
                        214
                    
                
                
                    
                        Not the same as Pethion (http://syriaca.org/person/1409)