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installation	Baths of Dagistheus/Anastasius
name	Baths of Dagistheus – Construction
event type	Construction
start date	491
end date	527
date comments	Dating after Crow et al., 2008, p. 10: construction begun by Anastasius (491-518). Date range is taken at maximum (start of Anastasius' reign 491-518, completion in 526/7). In reality, the range within this span may have been shorter.
persons	Anastasius I Dikoros - Founder (491-518), Justinian - Finisher (527-565)
description	The building of the bath is attested in Malalas, the Chronicon Paschale, Theophanes and Cedrenus. All chroniclers repeat that the building project started under Anastasius, and was finished under Justinian. The Chronicon Paschale and Theophanes specifically add that this bath was known as a public bath in the quarter of Dagistheus.
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Literature connected to this Event

#	Code	Page	Excerpt
1	Cedrenus 1050	232	(History, ed. Bekker 1.610) He (Justinian) also completed the interior of the imperial cistern (basilike kinsterna) of Illus, which he furthermore enlarged, and the bath (loutron) of Dagisteus, which Anastasius had begun.
2	Chronicon Paschale 641 Whitby	110	(Dindorf 618-19) The same emperor (Justinian I) also completed the public bath, the one in the quarter of Dagistheus, which Anastasius the emperor had formerly begun to build in Constantinople. And the same emperor also made the central court of the Basilica of Illus a great cistern, wishing to send into it the water from the Hadrianic aqueduct. The same emperor restored this aqueduct, which had formerly been constructed by emperor Hadrian for the Byzantines to supply water before Byzantium had a water supply. Comment by Crow 2008: Compare Cedrenus, History 1.645.
3	Crow, Bardill & Bayliss 2008	10, 232, 236
4	Malalas 565	276	(Chronicle 18.17) The emperor (Justinian I) also completed the public bath in Constantinople known as Dagitheos', which the emperor Anastasios had begun to build. He built the central hall of the Basilican cistern (436), intending to bring the water of Hadrian's aqueduct into it. He also reconstructed the city's aqueduct (i.e. the supply line of Valens).
5	Theophanes 814	267	(Chronicle AM 6020) The same emperor (Justinian I) completed the public bath in the quarter of Dagistheos, which the emperor Anastasios had begun, and also made the inner court of the basilica of Illos into a large cistern.