The Antiquities of Constantinople / With a Description of Its Situation, the Conveniencies of Its Port, Its Publick Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and Other Curiosities of That City - Pierre Gilles

Labarum, this Word signifies a longer piece of Wood, transvers’d near the Top with a short Piece, upon which hangs the military Flag, [184]
Lampterum, a place in Constantinople so called, because it was Nightly Illuminated, [192]

Magnaura, a place in the Suburbs, [239]
Mahomet, took the City, [195]
Mangana, a Place of Arms; also a Monastery of that Name, [96]
Medal, of Belisarius, [116]
Miliarium Aureum, this was a gilded Pillar, from whence they us’d to adjust the Distances of Places from the City, [152]
Modius, this generally signifies a Bushel according to English Measure; but I am sensible, I had translated it more properly, had I made it to signify no more than a Peck wanting half a Pint; which is the Grecian Modius, [107]
Modules, these are certain Measures invented to regulate the whole Building, [113]
Monastery, of Studius, [259]
Monastery, of Studius, [259]
Morion, a place so call’d, which ran round the Hippodrom, [123]
Mosaic Work, A curious Piece of it, [87]

Obelisk, built of Thebaic Marble, [103]
Two more Obelisks, [104]
Ovolo, or Egg, is that Member of Architecture, which is first plac’d on the Top of Ionic Capitals, [113]

Paces, by this, the Author means the Ordinary Steps a Man takes in Walking, which cannot be exactly reduced to the Roman Pace, because they vary according to the different Ascents and Descents of the Ground he walks, [65]
Palace of Constantine, [134]
of the Grand Seignor, [37]
of Justinus, [120]
Other Palaces built by him, [121]
Palace of Maximinus, [81]
Palaces of Sophia, [121]
Palladium of Minerva, [117]
Describ’d, [179]
How Figur’d, [180]
Pedestal; this is that Member of Architecture, that supports a Column, having a Base and Cornice different, according to the Difference of the several Orders of Building, [113]
Phanarium, a Street in Constantinople, [236]
Pharo, a Watch-Tower; set up as a Guide to Ships at a Distance, [96]
Philoxenon; this Word, by its Derivation from the Greek, signifies a publick Place of Entertainment for Travellers, and Strangers. The Turks at present call these Places Caravansera’s, [161]
Pillar of Arcadius; this is the same Pillar, which is called the Historical Pillar; and which is Represented among the Cuts which I have added to this Book: It is therefore called the Historical Pillar; because it Represents the Actions and Triumphs of that Emperor. It is a plain Marble Column, 147 Foot in Height; work’d in Basso Relievo, [250]
See Tournefort.
Pillar of Marcian; this Pillar is only mention’d by my Author; but since his Time has been discover’d in a private Garden at Constantinople, by Sir G. Wheler. The Pillar is made of Granate, and is thought to have been the Urn, where that Emperor’s Heart was buried, [256]
See the same Author.
Pillars; Of Constantine, [156]
Corinthian, very large, [137]
Pillars in the Hippodrom, [110], [111], [112]
Of Justinian, [129]
Porphyry Pillar, [172]
See also the Cuts.
Pillars in the Senate-House, [131]
Of Sophia, [120]
Of Theodosius, [129]
Of Valentinian, [256]
Plinth; in Architecture it is taken for that square Member, which makes the Foundation of the Base of the Pillar, [113]
Portico’s; these were Buildings of curious work, added to publick Structures whether Sacred or Civil.
Portico, Of the Church of the Apostles, [221]
Imperial Portico, where sealed, [150]
Other Portico’s, full of Statues, [151]
Portico, called Sigma, [221]
Prytaneum; this was a stately Building, where those who had deserv’d well of the Government, were handsomely maintain’d at the publick Charge. There was such a Structure at Athens, for the same purpose, [169]
Pyramidical Engine; its Use and Contrivance, [197]

Scotia; this is a Member of Architecture hollow’d, or fluted as a Demi-Channel. It is particularly us’d in the Bases, where it is plac’d between the Tore, and the Astragals, [113]
Senate-House; built by Constantine, [132]
How adorn’d, [182]
Seraglio, or the Imperial Palace; a Description of it, [37], [38], [39], [40], [41]
Where situate, [51]
Its Extent, [52]
Shaft of a Pillar is the Body of it, [111]
Stadia; these were Places, in the Form of Circo’s, for running of Men and Horses, [136]
Statues; Of Apollo, [176]
Of Arcadia, and Verina, [79]
Of Arcadius and Honorius, [197]
Of Ariadne, [139]
Of Arius and others, [154]
Of Byzas and Phidalia, [141]
Of Constantine the Great, [170]
A Silver Statue of Eudoxia Augusta, [101]
Two Female Statues, [186]
Of the Fortune of the City, [154]
A gilded Statue, and that of Justinian, [141]
Of Helena and others, [138]
Of Hercules, [142]
Statues in the Hippodrom, [108], [109], [110], [111]
Statue of old Homer very fine, [78]
Of Justinian, [127]
Statues in the Lausus, [159]
Of Leo the Emperour, [123]
Of Longinus, [187]
Of the Muses, [139]
Of Princes, Poets, Historians, and Orators, [99]
Of Pulcheria, [139]
Of Rhea, [131]
Of Theodora, [79]
Of Theodosius, [125], [129]
Of Trajan, Theodosius, Valentinian, Gibbus, Firmillianus, and Eutropius, [142]
Of Zeno, Statues in the Bagnio’s of Zeuxippus, [98]
Statues (mention’d in the Appendix) demolish’d by the Romans. Anemodes, a Woman plac’d on a Pyramid, and turning with the Wind, [287]
Animals; two large ones represented in Brass, [293]
Animals; two less, [294]
An Ass and his Driver, [289]
Charioteers; a Range of them, [293]
An Eagle in Brass, entwin’d by a Serpent, [290]
An Elephant, [289]
An Equestrian Statue of a Man, [293]
An Equestrian Statue in the Taurus, [287]
A Helen very fine, [291]
An Hesperian Hercules, [288]
A Horse wild, [289]
A Hyæna, and a Wolf, ibid.
A Juno in Brass, [288]
A Man fighting with a Lyon, [289]
Neilôus, a Horse, ib.
Old Scylla, ibid.
Sphinx’s, ibid.
a Woman, a more modern Statue, [293]
Strategium, a kind of a Parade, or Place where the Generals usually pitched their Tents, and exercis’d their Men, [23]
Syparum; the Flag of a Military Standard, [184]