ove was in print, the church has, unfortunately, been burnt
in the great fire which destroyed a large part of Stamboul on the 23rd
July 1912 (see Plates II., III.).

NOTE

Gyllius (_De top. C.P._ iii. c. 8) places the Horreum, the statue of
Maimas, the house of Craterus, the Modius, and the arch bearing the
two bronze hands, after passing which a criminal on the way to
punishment lost all hope of reprieve, near this church; basing that
opinion on the statement of Suidas that these buildings stood near the
Myrelaion. But there was a Myrelaion also (Codinus, _De aed._ p. 108)
in the district in which the Shahzade mosque is situated. The
buildings above mentioned were near this second Myrelaion. On the
other hand, the Chrysocamaron near the Myrelaion mentioned by Codinus
(_De signis_, pp. 65-66) stood near the church under our
consideration, for it was close to the church of S. Acacius in the
Heptascalon. So also, doubtless, did the xenodocheion Myrelaion (Du
Cange, iv. p. 160), possibly one of the many philanthropic
institutions supported by Helena (Theoph. Cont. p. 458), the daughter
of Romanus Lecapenus and wife of Constantine VII. Porphyrogenitus.

[Illustration: FIGS. 66 AND 67.]

[308] _De top. C.P._ iii. c. 8.

[309] Banduri, iii. p. 48.

[310] _Ibid. ut supra._

[311] Theoph. Cont. p. 402.

[312] Scylitzes, in Cedrenus, ii. p. 649.

[313] Theoph. Cont. p. 404.

[314] _Ibid._ pp. 461, 757.

[315] Scylitzes, _ut supra_, pp. 648-49.

[316] Theoph. Cont. p. 402.

[317] _Ibid._ p. 420.

[318] _Ibid._ p. 473.

[319] _Ibid._ pp. 403-4.

[320] Chevalier, _Voyage de la Propontide et du Pont Euxin_, vol. i.
p. 108.

[321] _De top. C.P._ iii. c. 8, 'habens inter se cisternam, cujus
camera lateritia sustinetur columnis marmoreis circiter sexaginta';
cf. _Die byzant. Wasserbehaelter_, pp. 59, 222-23. The bath of Kyzlar
Aghassi Hamam may represent the bath built by the eunuch Nicetas, in
the reign of Theophilus, and was probably supplied with water from the
cistern beside it (Banduri, vi. p. 133).

CHAPTER XII

THE CHURCH OF S. JOHN THE BAPTIST IN TRULLO,
ACHMED PASHA MESJEDI

The identification of the church of S. John the Baptist in Trullo
([Greek: Mone tou hagiou prophetou prodromou Ioannou tou en to
Troullo]) with the mosque of Achmed Pasha Mesjedi is based on two
reasons: first, because of their common proximity to the church of the
Pammakaristos,[3