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installation	Blachernai Public Bath
name	Blachernai Public Bath – Construction
event type	Construction
start date	578
end date	587
date comments	Dating after Crow et al., 2008, p. 10: buliding begun 578-82, completed 586/7. Date range is taken at maximum. In reality, the range within this span may have been shorter.
persons	Maurice - Finisher (582-602), Tiberius II Constantine - Founder (578-582)
description	According to Leo Grammaticus (a collective name for the works related to the Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete, 10th century), Tiberius II was an active builder. Amongst his projects was the construction of the public bath of Blachernai. Book 2 of the Patria attributes the construction to Leo Makelles (Leo I, r. 401-474), however, it only states that it was "a bath". It cannot be certainly be identified with the public bath.
comments	Could Patria's bath be the Hagiasma of Theotokos Blachernai? Check Constantine VII's description of the ritual and which baths/springs were used.

#	Code	Page	Excerpt
1	Cedrenus 1050	234	(History, ed. Bekker 1.690) In his fourth year Tiberius built the public batch (demosion loutron) of the Blachernai.
2	Grammaticus 949 Krausmüller	234	(trans. Mango (1972), 128) He (Tiberius) built and decorated the public bath of the Blachernae, and he restored many churches and hospices. He also splendidly decorated the so-called Chrysotriklinos in the palace which had been built from the ground up by Justin (II).
3	Patria 990	230	(Patria 3.75) The same (sc. Leo Makelles) also built a bath (sc. in the Blachernae).
4	Theophanes 814	382	(Chronicle AM 6079) Maurice built the Carian portico at Blachernai and had painters depict in it all his deeds from his childhood until his reign. He also completed the public bath which is at the portico. Comment by Crow 2008: Compare Cedrenus, History 1.694.