Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites

by Alexander Van Millingen

[955]. Ancient and Modern Consple., p. 23.

[956]. Leo Gramm., p. 289.

[957]. Ancient and Modern Consple., p. 23.

[958]. Le Palais Impérial de Consple., p. 207.

[959]. Anonymus, ii. p. 23.

[960]. De Top. CP., ii. c. xv.

[961]. Pand. Hist. Turc., s. 200, Πόρτα ταῖς Ἀρκούδες; Itinéraires Russes en Orient, p. 235: “Sous la muraille au pied de la mer, se trouvent des ours et des aurochs en pierre.”

[962]. Patriarch Constantius, Ancient and Modern Consple., p. 22.

[963]. Anonymus, iii. p. 46.

[964]. Cedrenus, vol. ii. p. 250. Symeon Magister (De Leone Basilii Filio, c. i.) records a fire near the Harbour of Sophia and the Iron Gate, which burned the Church of St. Thomas—a proof that these points stood near one another.