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installation	Baths of Alexander
name	Baths of Alexander – Damage
event type	Demolition/damage
start date	532
end date	532
date comments	-
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description	Theophanes, a chronicler from the early 9th century, records that during the Nika riot rioters burned a series of buidings among which the Baths of Alexander (AM 6024).
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1	Chronicon Paschale 641 Whitby	118-119	(Dindorf 622) And on the Friday, day 16 of the same month (January 532), the people went to the praetorium of the prefects, and threw fire there, and the roofs of the two imperial houses were burnt and of the same praetorium only where the archives were. For a north wind blew and drove the fire away from the praetorium; and the bath of Alexander was burnt and the hospice of Eubulus in part and St. Irene ( ... ) which had been built by Illus the Isaurian, who rebelled against Zeno the emperor.
2	Theophanes 814	279	(Chronicle AM 6024) Next they (the rioters) went and burned the baths of Alexander, the great hospice of Sampson (where the patients perished), and the Great Church along with all its columns. It collapsed entirely on all four sides.