The vital numerals were defaced, but there seemed no doubt that the last fragment was a part of S (6000) and as the writer states that there was only room for one more letter, SΔ or 6004 (495) is the only year that will fit the fourth indiction. “The architect Bubroff is about to show that the church was built in the fifth century.”
[335] A book on mechanics (περὶ παραδόξων μηχανημάτων) has been ascribed to Anthemius.
[336] Procopius in Pal. Pilg. Text., p. 48.
[337] Lib. xiii., tit. iv.
[338] Edit. by Waddington, p. 18.
[339] Giacomo Boni, Il Duomo di Parenzo, in Archivio Storico dell’Arte, 1894, p. 5.
[340] Migne, S.G., vol. xxxvii., p. 1090.
[341] There is no doubt about these arches being truly pointed. They were drawn so by Dr. Covel about 1675, they appear so in the careful engraving in Miss Pardoe’s Bosphorus, and these are fully confirmed by Strzygowski and Forchheimer, Die Wasserbehälter von Konstantinopel, pp. 12 and 71. The use of the pointed arch in the east is probably an unbroken tradition from early days in Egypt.
[342] Die Wasserbehälter, p. 130, &c.
[343] 1799, p. 236.