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installation	Reservoir of Aetius (Cistern of Pulcheria)
name	Reservoir of Aetius – Construction
event type	Construction
start date	420
end date	421
date comments	Stamped bricks carry a third indiction year, which suggests that they were manufactured in 419/20 (Crow et al., 2008, p. 130).
persons	Aetius - Founder (419-425)
description	The Cistern of Aetius was inaugurated 12 February 421. Chronicon Paschale adds a date, but lists the cistern under the name "Cistern of the lady Pulcheria Augusta".
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#	Code	Page	Excerpt
1	Chronicon Paschale 641 Whitby	68	(Dindorf 578) In the time of these consuls (421) water was let into the cistern of the lady Pulcheria Augusta, in the month Peritius, one day before the Ides of February (12 February), in the presence of lord Theodosius Augustus.
2	Marcellinus 534	13	(Chronicle A.D. 421) The reservoir of Aetius was built (420/1). Comment by Crow 2008: The cistern is presumably the same as the 'cistern of the lady Pulcheria' mentioned by the Chronicon Paschale in the same year.