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Event details

installation
name
Baths of Zeuxippos – Change of function (workshop, prison)
event type
Change of function
start date
800
end date
1500
date comments
8th-15th century.
persons
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description

Shortly after Philippikos' use of the bath, it appears to have fallen in disrepair. Since the late 8th century, imperial silk workshops were active around the bath. Parts of the bath served as a prison until the Palaiologan period; its name was occasionally mixed up with a neighbouring building called Noumera (Suida, 10th century: Ζεύξιππος τὰ νῦν Νούμερα) (Janin, 1964, p. 223; Müller-Wiener, 1977, p. 52, original source?).

Pero Tafur records a bath that was used to test women accused of adultery. Crow comments that Tafur might be referring to the Baths of Zeuxippos.

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