Heraclius’s dispatches read in the Great Church
The Chronicon Paschale reports that on 15 May 628 dispatches from Heraclius announcing Chosroes’s fall and Siroes’s proclamation as Persian king were read from the ambo in Constantinople’s Great Church.
What this does and does not establish
Dindorf’s Greek text, p. 727. This dates the public reading, not the Persian succession itself. The embedded imperial communication subsequently dates Siroes’s coronation to 25 February and Chosroes’s killing to 28 February. The parallel Latin is not independent evidence.
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- Region
- Europe
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- 15 May, indiction I; Heraclius year XVIII, postconsulate XVII; Heraclius New Constantine year XVI.
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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Dating notes from the research record
Examined paschale-690-729.txt, lines 1607–1768. Greek heading 1644 and Latin heading 1667 directly correspond: indiction I, Heraclius XVIII, postconsulate XVII, AD 628. Greek 1647–1654 repeats the regnal and postconsular coordinates and specifies 15 May, the first weekday, Pentecost; Latin 1670–1675 agrees. September-based indiction I places this May in Julian AD 628. Read the preceding 627 headings and the subsequent imperial letter through the packet’s end, including its February dates.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Chronicon Paschale
Anonymous Constantinopolitan chronicler
Quoted text (Greek)
ἀνεγνώσθησαν ἀποκρίσεις ἐπ’
ἄμβωνος ἐν τῇ ἁγιωτάτῃ μεγάλῃ ἐκκλησίᾳ,AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Dispatches were read from the ambo in the most holy Great Church,
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Chronicon Paschale, Dindorf (1832), pp. 690–729, First1KGreek TEI ed91552c52530c8f5a3ddf2dd767e899372a804c; project English working translation. First1KGreek contributors; https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/First1KGreek/ed91552c52530c8f5a3ddf2dd767e899372a804c/data/tlg2371/tlg001/tlg2371.tlg001.1st1K-grc1.xml ; CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ (adapted translation).
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