Note 311 — Chapter I · CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE SIXTH CENTURY[3]
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Evidenced by the discovery of a swarm of leaden bullae, or seals for official documents, about 1877; ibid., p. 70. But in the sixth century the legal records from the time of Valens were kept in the basement of the Hippodrome; Jn. Lydus, De Magistr., iii, 19.