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name	Roman bath (Kalenderhane) – Construction
event type	Construction
start date	400
end date	400
date comments	No exact years are given, the terminus post quem is the completion of the Valens Waterway in 378, as the Hadrian Waterway was unable to supply the hill on which the bath was built. Striker and Kuban consider the bath’s presence on the Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae 425 likely, which places the construction date roughly between 378-425 (Cf. Striker & Kuban 1991, p. 36).
installations	Roman bath (Kalenderhane)
persons	-
description	After the completion of the Valens Waterway and the Valens aqueduct bridge (378), a small Roman bath was built near the aqueduct bridge around 400. Although it was privately owned, it could be used by the public against a fee. It consisted of three rooms (A, B, C, see map). Room
comments	Remnants of the caldarium (heated room) are still visible outside of the Mosque.

Literature connected to this Event

#	Code	Page	Excerpt
1	Müller-Wiener 1977	48-49	See section 'BAD bei KALENDERHANE CAMII'.
2	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).
3	Striker and Kuban 1997	7, 29-36	See section 'Introduction', '3. Valens Aqueduct (Phase 1)', '4. Roman Bath (Phase 2)'.