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installation	Baths of Helena
name	Baths of Helena
event type	-
start date	498
end date	494
date comments	Placeholder event: the bath is attested as functioning in this year in Theophanes' Chronicle.
persons	-
description	Attestation of the Baths' existence. In the 5th century, when the baths were in use, an Arian named Olympios drowned in the bath according to Theophanes (early 9th century).
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#	Code	Page	Excerpt
1	Theophanes 814	218	(Chronicle AM 5991) A certain Olympios, an Arian, who was washing in the baths of Helenianai, died miserably in the pool after uttering terrible blasphemies.