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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.

Limits: 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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