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installation	Blachernai Public Bath
name	Blachernai Public Bath – Restoration
event type	Restoration
start date	976
end date	1025
date comments	Reign of Basil II.
persons	Basil II - Restorer (976-1025)
description	According to Patria, Basil II pulled down the "holy bath" of the Blachernai, to rebuild and redecorate it.
comments	The only thing that does not add up is that the bath is referred to as a "holy bath" (hagion louma) and not a public bath. Caution is needed when identifying this bath with the public bath built by Tiberius and Maurice in the 6th century.

#	Code	Page	Excerpt
1	Patria 990	238	(Patria 3.214) Basil the Younger, who was modest and doing good and full of pity, the son of Emperor Romanus the Younger, who was born in the purple, pulled down the holy bath of the Blachernai (hagion louma) and erected it anew having decorated it in a grander and better fashion than it had been before. And he provided it with pictures and décor of silver and gold.