Paragraph:
7
Translation:
In the city of Jerusalem by the Sepulchre of the Lord is the Place of a Skull <Calvary>. There Abraham offered his son as a sacrifice, and because it is a hill of rock, it was on the hill itself — at its foot, to be exact — that Abraham made the altar. Above the altar rises the hill; one climbs to the top of it by steps. There the Lord was crucified. From the Tomb of the Lord it is 15 paces to the Place of a Skull: It is beneath a roof. From the Place of a Skull it is 15 paces to Golgotha, where my Lord's Cross was discovered.
(transl. Wilkinson)
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Summary:
Description of Calvary, from an itinerary of ca. AD 518-530.
Theodosius refers to the site of the Crucifixion as Calvariae locus, or "Calvary", while referring to the site of the discovery of the Cross, where the Constantinian basilica stands, as "Golgotha".