ixed. His wife
has a veil (_peplum_) almost like that which Greek women have. The
covered passage and the church form one building (_porticus muro
etiam templi continetur_), entered by two high gates, and comprising
four parts, or divided into four parts. 1. The covered passage
(_porticus_), the walls of which as far as half their height are
covered with marble. On the upper part, where the arches begin, and
on the arches themselves are the paintings. In this passage or hall
stand the women, and do not enter the church as they do not enter
other churches, unless they go to the Lord's supper. 2. Is the
church, as such, covered with Turkish rugs, and has only one gate.
It has a high dome, which, like the remaining two domes, is entirely
gilded and painted, and the walls up to the arches are covered with
the most beautiful marble. From this one enters 3. through a low
vaulted compartment, with a somewhat lower arch than the foresaid
arches, the third part of the church, where the founder with other
very beautiful portraits (pictures) is painted in gold. From this
one enters 4. a vaulted and also painted, but rather dark place,
with many small windows. On the outside of the walls of the church
there is this inscription[452]--

[Illustration: Monogram in Greek.]

In front of the porch, vestibulo, [Greek: propilio] of this church
Theodosius showed me the place where the last Christian emperor
Constantine, intending to flee at the Turkish conquest of the city,
is said to have fallen from his horse and to have been found dead.'

[Illustration: FIGS. 88 AND 89.]

[429] Scarlatus Byzantius, p. 369; Patr. Constantius, p. 81; Paspates,
p. 304.

[430] Leo Gramm. pp. 218, 222.

[431] Siderides, in _Proceedings of the Greek Syllogos of C.P._ vol.
xxviii. p. 265.

[432] _Ibid._ p. 263.

[433] _Proceedings of the Greek Syllogos of C.P._, _ut supra_, p. 258.

[434] _Pasch. Chron._ p. 593.

[435] _Die byzantinischen Wasserbehaelter von Konstantinopel_, von Dr.
Forscheimer und Dr. Strzygowski, pp. 62-63, 175-176.

[436] _Ut supra._

[437] Mansi, viii. col. 990, col. 1054.

[438] Miklosich et Mueller, pp. 28, 50, 53, 54.

[439] P. 305. On p. 163 he places the pier in its proper position.

[440] _Esq. top._ p. 76; Archaeological Supplement to vol. xviii. of
the _Proceedings of the Greek Syllogos of C.P._ p. 9.

[441] _Tuerkisches Tagebuch_, pp. 455-56; cf. Crusius, _Tur