A palace bath attributed to Leo VI. According to descriptions by Leo Choirosphaktes, who wrote an ekphrasis of the bath, the building consisted of a long entrance hall and a main chamber containing a hot pool, said to be "in an octaconch". There was at least one dome and one apse. The exterior of the building may have been adorned with gilded stonework and statues (possibly spolia?). The bath may have incorporated (sub)structures of the imperial oikos of Marina from the Theodosian era (Magdalino, 1988, p. 100). Its location at the House (domus, οἰκός) of Marina on the northeastern confines of the Great Palace indicates it was supplied by the Hadrian Waterway.
The Bath of Leo VI may be identified with the bath at Marina or Bath of the Oikonomeion (Patria II.145) according to Magdalino (1988).
Crow et al., 2008, p. 237: "Magdalino (1984), 233 has identified this bath with that of Leo built in the House of Marina, and which Constantine VII later restored. He has also (1988, 99-100) identified it with the 'great bath of the Oikonomion near the Tzukanisterion' mentioned in the Patria. Mango (1991) has argued that his bath was not a new foundation under Leo, but that Leo restored an early fifth-century private bath built to serve the House of Marina. On the location of the bath and the House of Marina, see Bardill (2006), 39-40."
Leo Choirosphakes is the author of an anacreontic ekphrasis of the Bath of Leo VI. A full text and translation can be found in Magdalino (1988), 116-118 (correcting Magdalino 1984). The poem was likely comissioned by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos (r. 913-959).