Argyros, son of Melus went by sea to besiege Trani, though the people there had not harmed the people of Bari. He had a variety of siege-machines, including an enormously tall wooden tower. However after 36 days of siege, he received a letter from Konstantinos IX via the messenger Theodoretos, who offered him an amnesty and high Byzantine honours, probably the dignity of patrikios. He accepted the bribe, burned his siege-engines and returned to Bari