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installation	Baths of Zeuxippos
name	Baths of Zeuxippos – Reduced supply
event type	Reduced supply
start date	626
end date	766
date comments	Between the Avar siege (626) and the restoration of Constantine V (766), also known as the 'dry years'.
persons	Philippikos - User (711-713)
description	Despite the 'dry years' after the Valens Waterway was presumably cut, Theophanes still records that Philippikos bathed in the baths of Zeuxippos at Pentecost (3 June 713). Philipipikos' special relationship with the bath is also recorded by the Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai, that claims that an image of this emperor (mistaken for the legendary Zeuxippos) was to be found in the ancient bath.
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Literature connected to this Event

#	Code	Page	Excerpt
1	Crow, Bardill & Bayliss 2008	10, 13-14, 20
2	Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai 829	161	(Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai 82) The coloured image in the ancient bath, that is to say the Zeuxippus, is of Philippicus the gentle, who was deceived through ignorance. As the story goes, it is just like its model. Painters greatly praised the artist, because he did not depart from the emperor's appearance with regard to the archetype.
3	Theophanes 814	533	(Chronicle AM 6205) Philippikos having meanwhile reigned two years, when the hippodrome games of the City's birthday (11 May 713) had been celebrated and the Greens had won, the emperor decided to make on the Saturday of Pentecost (3 June 713) an entry on horseback, to bathe in the public baths of the Zeuxippos and to lunch with citizens of ancient lineage.
4	Theophanes 814	608	(Chronicle AM 6258) On 16 November of the same 5th indiction (766) the eunuch Niketas, a Slav was unlawfully ordained by the emperor's decree patriarch of Constantinople. There ensued a drought, such that even dew did not fall from heaven and water entirely disappeared from the City. Cisterns and baths were put out of commission; even those springs that in former times had gushed continuously now failed. On seeing this the emperor set about restoring Valentinian's (Valens') aqueduct, which had functioned until Herakleios and had been destroyed by the Avars (in 626). He collected artisans from different places and brough from Asia and Pontos 1,000 masons and 200 plasterers, form Hellas and the islands 500 clay-workers, and from Thrace itself 5,000 labourers and 200 mrickmakers. He set taskmasters over them including one of the patricians. When the work had thus been completed, water flowed into the City. Comment by Crow 2008: The types of labourers mentioned in this passage are discussed by Dalman (1933), 6.