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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor (AM 5957) states that a sanctuary of *John the Baptist (S00020) was built in Alexandria in 464/465. Chronicle compiled in the Byzantine Empire in the early 9th c., using extracts from earlier Greek texts.

Evidence ID

E08021

Type of Evidence

Literary - Other narrative texts (including Histories)

Major author/Major anonymous work

Theophanes

Chronicle of Theophanes, AM 5957 [AD 464/5]

Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει έκτίσθη τὸ τετράστωον τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰωάννου ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ καὶ τὸ ἁγιαστήριον· καὶ Ἑπτάβιζος τὸ δημόσιον βαλανεῖον ἀπεδόθη τῇ πόλει.

'In this year the Tetrastoon and sanctuary of St John were built in Alexandria. Also the public bath Heptabizos was restored to the city.'


Text: de Boor 1883, 114.
Translation: Mango and Scott 1997, 177.



Record Created By

David Lambert

Date of Entry

30/10/2020

Related Saint Records
IDNameName in SourceIdentity
S00020John the BaptistἸωάννηςCertain


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