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installation	Baths of Anastasia
name	Baths of Anastasia - Construction
event type	Construction
start date	364
end date	378
date comments	Dating after Crow et al., 2008, p. 10.
persons	Valens - Founder (364-378)
description	Emperor Valens built the baths and named them respectively after his daughters Anastasia and Carosia. They are also attested in the Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae. One source, Ammianus Marcellinus, claims that the bath was named after another Anastasia (Constantine's half-sister, wife of Bassianus Caesar, c. 314). Ammianus also reports that the two legions that supported the usurper Procopius were stationed here when the latter declared himself emperor and took control of the city in 365.
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#	Code	Page	Excerpt
1	Chronicon Paschale 641 Whitby	45	(Dindorf 556) This Valens the brother of Valentinian was Arian, and had as wife Domnica, by whom he had a son, Galates by name, and two daughters, Anastasia and Carosa, and he founded two baths in Constantinople, the Anastasianae and the Carosianae, in accordance with their names.
2	Crow, Bardill & Bayliss 2008	10
3	Marcellinus 380 Rolfe	605-607	(Ammianus Marcellinus 26.6.14) So, as had been agreed, as soon as the sun's rays illumined the day, the aforesaid Procopius, full of conflicting emotions, went to the Anastasian Baths, named for the sister of Constantine, where he knew that the legions had their quarters. The 'sister of Constantine' was Anastasia, wife of Bassianus Caesar. According to other sources the Anastasian baths were named from a daughter of Valens.
4	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).
5	Socrates 439	99	(Church History 4.9) But the emperor's (Valens') displeasure against this sect (the Novatians) was moderated by the efforts of a pious and eloquent man named Marcian, who had formerly been in military service at the imperial palace, but was at that time a presbyter in the Novatian church, and taught Anastasia and Carosa, the emperor's daughters, grammar; from the former of whom the public baths yet standing, which Valens erected at Constantinople, were named.
6	Sozomen 443	352	(Church History 6.9) Not long after his banishment, he (Agelius the Novatian) was recalled, received the churches under him, and boldly convened churches through the influence of Marcian, a man of extraordinary virtue and eloquence, who had formerly been enrolled among the troops of the palace, but at this period was a presbyter of the Novatian heresy, and the teacher of grammar to Anastasia and Carosa, the daughters of the emperor. There are still baths at Constantinople which bear the names of these princesses.
7	Theophanes 814	45	(Chronicle AM 5860) The impious Valens had two daughters, Anastasia and Carosa, in whose names he built two baths and the aqueduct which even now is known as Valentinianic.