[53]. De Top. CP., iv. c. 1.

[54]. On the occasion of his second visit, Gyllius saw the column removed to the Mosque of Sultan Suleiman.

[55]. Pages 10, 72.

[56]. Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., p. 501.

[57]. Cedrenus, vol. ii. p. 540, Ἄνωθεν τῆς περιβλέπτου μονῆς, ἐν τῷ τοπω τῷ καλουμένῳ Σίγματι.

[58]. Patriarch Constantius, Ancient and Modern Constantinople, p. 86.

[59]. Paschal Chron., p. 579.

[60]. Socrates, vii. c. 5; Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., p. 106.

[61]. Banduri, Imperium Orientale, v. p. 81; Synaxaria, May 11.

[62]. Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., pp. 55, 56.