Persian capture of Jerusalem
The Chronicon Paschale places the Persian capture of Jerusalem around June in its fourth regnal year of Heraclius.
What this does and does not establish
Dindorf’s Greek text, pp. 704–705. The month is approximate; no capture day is supplied. The supplied transcription’s Latin heading reads 644, contrary to the surrounding Roman dating sequences; it cannot establish the AD year. The parallel Latin narrative likewise says approximately June. The B in the retained XML is a marginal column mark and is excluded from the translation.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- Western Asia
- 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
- Around June, indiction II, Heraclius regnal year IV
- How we use it
- Only the year is resolved.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Examined paschale-690-729.txt, lines 587–699. Greek heading at 624 gives indiction II, regnal year IV and third postconsular year, following the indiction-I/year-III/second-postconsular heading at 587. June within indiction II is Julian AD 614. Greek at 627–629 explicitly says approximately June; Latin at 648–650 agrees. The next Greek heading at 671 advances to indiction III, regnal year V and fourth postconsular year. The Latin headings at 645 and 694 anomalously read 644 and 645; the Greek Roman sequences, not those numerals, fix this mapping.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Chronicon Paschale
Anonymous Constantinopolitan chronicler
Quoted text (Greek)
μετὰ γὰρ πολλῶν τῆς ἀνατολῆς πόλεων ἥλω
<note type="marginal">B</note> καὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ὑπὸ Περσῶν,This quote keeps the edition’s markup: tags in angle brackets and wiki braces are not part of the text.
AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
For, along with many cities of the East, Jerusalem too was captured by the Persians,
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).
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-05. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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