In the Acropolis were placed, as usual, the principal sanctuaries of the city; the Temples of Artemis, Aphrodite, Apollo, Zeus, Poseidon, and Demeter. Against the steep eastern side of the citadel, Severus constructed a theatre and a Kynegion for the exhibition of wild animals, as the Theatre of Dionysius and the Odeon were built against the Acropolis of Athens. At a short distance from the apex of the promontory rose the column, still found there, bearing the inscription _Fortunæ Reduci ob devictos Gothos_, in honour of Claudius Gothicus for his victories over the Goths. To the north of the Acropolis was the Stadium;[35] then came the ports of the Prosphorion and the Neorion, and in their vicinity the Strategion, the public prison,[36] and the shrine of Achilles and Ajax.[37] The aqueduct which the Emperor Hadrian erected for Byzantium continued to supply the city of Severus.[38] Nor was the territory without the walls entirely unoccupied. From statements found in Dionysius Byzantius, and from allusions which later writers make to ruined temples in different quarters of Constantinople, it is evident that many hamlets and public edifices existed along the shore of the Golden Horn, and in the valleys and on the hills beyond the city limits. Blachernæ was already established beside the Sixth Hill; Sycæ, famous for its figs, occupied the site of Galata; and the Xerolophos was a sacred hill, crowned with a temple of Zeus.[39] Footnote 1: Petrus Gyllius, _De Topographia Constantinopoleos et De illius Antiquitatibus_, liber i. c. 4-18. Footnote 2: Page 722. All references in this work to the Byzantine Authors, unless otherwise stated, are to the Bonn Edition of the _Corpus Scriptorum Historiæ Byzantinæ_. Footnote 3: Anonymus, lib. i. p. 20, in Banduri’s _Imperium Orientale_; Constantine Porphyrogenitus, _De Cerimoniis Aulæ Byzantinæ_, p. 501. Footnote 4: Xenophon, _Anabasis_, vii. c. 1. Footnote 5: _Anabasis_, vii. c. 1. Footnote 6: Paspates, Βυζαντιναὶ Μελέται, p. 103. Mordtmann, _Esquisse Topographique de Constantinople_, p. 5. All references to these writers, unless otherwise stated, are to the works here mentioned. Footnote 7: Lib. i. p. 2; Codinus, pp. 24, 25. Ἤρχετο δὲ τὸ τεῖχος, καθὰ καὶ νῶν, ἐπὶ τοῦ Βύζαντος ἀπὸ τοῦ πύργου τῆς Ἀκροπόλεως, καὶ διήρχετο εἰς τὸν τοῦ Εὐγενίου πύργον, καὶ ἀνέβαινε μέχρι τοῦ Στρατηγίου, καὶ ἤρχετο εἰς τὸ τοῦ Ἀχιλλέως λουτρόν. Ἡ δὲ ἐκεῖσε ἁψὶς, ἡ λεγομένη τοῦ Οὐρβικίου, πόρτα ἦν χερσαία τῶν Βυζαντίων: καὶ ἀνέβαινεν εἰς τὰ Χαλκοπρατεῖα τὸ τεῖχος ἕως τοῦ λεγομένου Μιλίου· ἦν δὲ κἀκεῖσε πόρτα τῶν Βυζαντίων χερσαία: καὶ διήρχετο εἰς τοὺς πλεκτοὺς κίονας τῶν Τζυκαλαρίων, καὶ κατέβαινεν εἰς Τόπους, καὶ ἀπέκαμπτε πάλιν διὰ τῶν Μαγγάνων καὶ Ἀρκαδιανῶν εἰς τὴν Ἀκρόπολιν. Footnote 8: See below, p. 227. Footnote 9: