The Paschal Chronicle records that a monumental column set up by the emperor Phocas in Constantinople in 609, and on which a cross was erected in 612 was located near the church of the *Forty Martyrs of Sebaste (S00103). Written in Greek at Constantinople, c. 630.
E07982
Literary - Other narrative texts (including Histories)
Paschal Chronicle, s.a. 609
Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἐπληρώθη ὁ σύνθετος κίων ὁ ἀνοικοδομηθεὶς ὑπὸ Φωκᾶ τοῦ βασιλέως μετὰ καὶ τῆς κιστέρνης κατὰ τὸ ἀνατολικὸν μέρος τῆς ἐκκλησίας τῶν ἁγίων μ' πλησίον τοῦ χαλκοῦ τετραπύλου.
'In this year was completed the composite column which was built by Phocas the emperor, as well as the cistern, by the eastern part of the church of the 40 Saints near the bronze Tetrapylon.'
Paschal Chronicle, s.a. 612
Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἐτέθη ἐπάνω τοῦ συνθετοῦ κίονος τοῦ κατ᾿ ἀνατολὸς τῆς ἐκκλησίας τῶν ἁγίων μ' ὁ τίμιος σταυρός, ὄντος ἐπάρχου πόλεως Θεοδώρου τοῦ ἀπὸ νοταρίων τῆς βασιλικῆς.
'In this year the venerable Cross was placed on top of the composite column to the east of the church of the 40 Saints, while Theodore the former notary of the imperial household was city prefect.'
Text: Dindorf 1832, 698-9, 703.
Translation: Whitby and Whitby 1989, 148, 155.
Cult building - independent (church)
Source
The Chronicon Paschale (paschal or Easter chronicle) is a chronicle compiled at Constantinople in the first half of the 7th century. It covers events from the creation of the world up to the anonymous author's own time. The Chronicle probably concluded with the year 630 (see Whitby and Whitby 1989, xi), though the surviving text breaks off slightly earlier, in the entry for 628. The traditional name for the Chronicle originates from its introductory section, which discusses methods for calculating the date of Easter. The Chronicle survives thanks to a single manuscript, Vatican, Gr. 1941 (10th c.), on which all other surviving manuscripts depend. The only critical edition remains that of Ludwig Dindorf (1832).The chronicler uses multiple chronological systems to date events: Olympiads, consular years, indictions, and years from the Ascension, as well as using Roman, Greek, and sometimes Egyptian dates (see Whitby and Whitby 1989, x). Numerous literary sources are utilised for the period before the author's own time, including well-known historical sources such as Eusebius and John Malalas. We have not included entries for material in the Paschal Chronicle which simply reproduces material in earlier sources already entered in our database.
Discussion
For the church of the Forty Martyrs, see Janin 1969, 483-6.Bibliography
Edition:Dindorf, L., Chronicon Paschale (Bonn, 1832).
Translation:
Whitby, M., and Whitby, M., Chronicon Paschale 284-628 AD (Translated Texts for Historians 7; Liverpool, 1989).
Further reading:
Janin, R., La géographie ecclésiastique de l'empire byzantin. I: Les églises et les monastères de la ville de Constantinople. (2nd ed.; Paris, 1969).
David Lambert
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00103 | Forty Martyrs of Sebaste | ὁι ἅγιοι μ' | Certain |
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