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installation	Baths of Zeuxippos
name	Baths of Zeuxippos - Construction
event type	Construction
start date	330
end date	330
date comments	11 May 530 is both mentioned by Malalas (6th century) and the Chronicon Paschale (7th century).
persons	Constantine I - Inaugurator (306-337)
description	Built by either Severus or Constantine (Crow et al., 2008, p. 13). Malalas (13.8) tells that the construction of the Bath begun under Severus, but that it was unfinished in the time of Constantine. As a consequence, Constantine finished construction by adorning the bath with "marbles of many colours and bronze statues..." Malalas and Chronicon Paschale both claim that the bath was opened on May 11 in 530. Chronicon Paschale details that it was celebrated with a great festival.
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1	Chronicon Paschale 641 Whitby	16	(Dindorf 529) Likewise too he completed the bath which is called Zeuxippon, adorning it with columns and varied marbles and works of bronze.
2	Chronicon Paschale 641 Whitby	16-17	(Dindorf 529-530) And he made a great festival, and commanded by his sacred decree that the anniversary of his city be celebrated on the same day, and that on the 11th of the same month Artemisius (May) the public bath Zeuxippon be opened, (530) which was near the hippodrome and the Regia of the palace.
3	Malalas 565	174	(Chronicle 13.8) Likewise he completed the public bath known as the Zeuxippon, and decorated it with columns and marbles of many colours and bronze statues. He had found the public bath unfinished; it had been begun formerly by the emperor Severus.
4	Malalas 565	175	(Chronicle 13.8) On the same day, 11th May, he ordered that the public bath, the Zeuxippon, should be opened near the hippodrome and the Regia and the palace.