Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture

by Alexander Van Millingen; Walter S. George; Arthur E. Henderson; Ramsay Traquair

[370] Cinnamus, p. 14; Guntherus Parisiensis in Riant's Exuviae sacrae, p. 105. The sarcophagus that forms part of a Turkish fountain to the west of the church is usually, but without any proof, considered to be the tomb of Irene. A long flight of steps near it leads to the cistern below the church.

[371] Cinnamus, p. 31.

[372] Nicet. Chon. pp. 53, 56, 66.

[373] Synax., October 26th.

[374] Nicet. Chon. p. 151.

[375] Ibid. p. 289.

[376] Nicet. Chon. p. 151.

[377] Riant, Exuviae sacrae, ii. p. 232.

[378] Nicet. Chon. pp. 332-33, 354-55.

[379] Riant, Exuviae sacrae, i. pp. 104 seq.