Indictions at Rome, 726–775

IN the April number of this review appeared a note by Mr. Hodgkin entitled' The Chronology of Theophanes in the Eighth Century,' in which he supports the theory of Professor Bury and M. Hubert as to the system of reckoning inductions during the period 726-775, and carries it a step further by supposing that the new method of reckoning was not confined to the eastern provinces, but extended even to Rome; though, curiously enough, he accepts the conclusions of M. Hubert, whose argument is based upon the assumption that the old method of calculation continued to be used at Rome. I have discussed the whole question in an article which will shortly appear in the Byzantinische Zeitschiift, and shall therefore not touch upon that here, but confine myself to the new point raised by Mr. Hodgkin. Now in a matter of this kind no sound conclusion can be based upon a few isolated documents, and I have therefore set down all the dates which bear upon the point. In the dates given below I omit the postconsulates of Constantine and the regnal years of Leo IV, which are calculated from dates falling within the disputed period, and give only the regnal years of Leo IH and Constantine, which are calculated from the two fixed points, March 25, 717, and March 25, 720

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