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 Shahzadé 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. Wasserbehälter_, 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: Monê tou hagiou prophêtou prodromou Iôannou tou en tô Troullô]) with the mosque of Achmed Pasha Mesjedi is based on two reasons: first, because of their common proximity to the church of the Pammakaristos,[322] now Fetiyeh Jamissi; secondly, on the ground of the tradition current in the Greek community on that point. The latter reason is in this case particularly strong, seeing the church of the Pammakaristos was the patriarchal cathedral almost immediately after the Turkish conquest, and retained that honour until 1591.[323] The highest Greek ecclesiastical authorities were therefore in a position to be thoroughly acquainted with the dedication of a church in their close vicinity. In 1578 the protonotarius of the patriarch showed Gerlach the site of the Trullus close to Achmed Pasha Mesjedi.[324]