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installation	Baths of Honorius (Region XIII, Sycae/Pera)
name	Baths of Honorius (Region XIII) – Construction
event type	Construction
start date	395
end date	423
date comments	Dating after Crow et al., 2008, p. 10.
persons	Honorius - Founder (395-423)
description	An edict from Honorius and Theodosius to Isodorus the City Prefect states that the Baths (referring to two baths of this name) should be adorned by a portico with a line of columns in front (29 October 412). According to Janin, 1964, p. 221, the edict refers to the bath in Region V to be adorned with a columned portico.
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Literature connected to this Event

#	Code	Page	Excerpt
1	Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae 425	229	First Region ... Contains in it: ... Arcadianae baths ... Fifteen private baths ... Second Region ... Contains in it: ... Baths of Zeuxippus ... Thirteen private baths ... Third Region ... Contains in it: ... Eleven private baths Fourth Region ... Contains in it: ... Nymphaeum ... Seven private baths Fifth Region ... Contains in it: ... Honorianae baths ... Theodosian cistern ... Eudociane baths ... Nymphaeum ... Eleven private baths Sixth Region ... Contains in it: ... Nine private baths Seventh region ... Contains in it: ... Carosianae baths ... Eleven private baths Eighth Region ... Contains in it: ... Ten private baths Ninth Region ... Contains in it: ... Anastasianae baths ... Fifteen private baths Tenth Region ... Contains in it: ... Constantinianae baths ... Large nymphaeum ... (Twenty-two?) private baths Eleventh Region ... Contains in it: ... Arcadiaca cistern. Modestiaca cistern ... Fourteen private baths Twelfth Region ... Contains in it: ... Five private baths Thirteenth Region (Sycae) ... Contains in it: ... Honorianae baths ... Five private baths Fourteenth Region (Rhegium?) ... Contains in it: ... Nymphaeum. Baths ... Five private baths Collection of the city ... The Constantinopolitan city therefore has: ... Eight baths (the regional list gives nine) ... Four cisterns (only three were listed) ... Four Nymphaea (correct) ... One hundred and fifty-three private baths (if the total is correct, it suggests that there were twenty-two in the tenth region). Comment by Crow 2008: See the discussion and translation into German of the Notitia by Berger (1997a).
2	Theodosius II 437	429	(Codex Theodosianus 15.1.50) The same Augustuses (Honorius and Theodosius) to Isidorus, Prefect of the City. The work that has been undertaken shall be constructed, and a portico with a line of columns shall extend in front of the Baths of Honorius ... Given on the fourth day before the calends of November at Constantinople in the year of the ninth consulship of Honorius Augustus and the fifth consulship of Theodosius Augustus (29 October 412). Comment by Crow 2008: The Notitia refers to two baths of this name, one in Region V, the other in Region XIII.