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The Antiquities of Constantinople: With a Description of Its Situation, the Conveniencies of Its Port, Its Publick Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and Other Curiosities of That CityGilles, Pierre

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The Antiquities of Constantinople: With a Description of Its Situation, the Conveniencies of Its Port, Its Publick Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and Other Curiosities of That City

Name: The Antiquities of Constantinople: With a Description of Its Situation, the Conveniencies of Its Port, Its Publick Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and Other Curiosities of That City
Author: Gilles, Pierre

Gilles, Pierre

Istanbul (Turkey) -- Antiquities; Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel; Turkey -- Antiquities

II. _Of the Antient Monuments of the First Hill, and of
  the First_ Ward _of the City_,                                p. 75

  III. _Of the Church of St._ Sophia,                           p. 82

  IV. _A Description of the Church of St._ Sophia, _as it
  now appears_,                                                 p. 87

  V. _Of the Statues found on one Side of that Church_,         p. 95

  VI. _Of the_ Pharo _on the_ Promontory _of_ Ceras, _and
  the_ Mangana,                                                 p. 96

  VII. _Of the_ Bagnio’s _of_ Zeuxippus, _and its Statues_,     p. 97

  VIII. _Of the Hospitals of_ Sampson, _and_ Eubulus,          p. 100

  IX. _Of the Statue of_ Eudocia Augusta, _for which
  St._ Chrysostom _was sent into Banishment_,                  p. 101

  X. _Of those Parts of the City which are contain’d in
  the Third_ Ward,                                             p. 102

  XI. _Of the_ Hippodrom, _its_ Obelisk, _its_ Statues,
  _and_ Columns,                                               p. 103

  XII. _Of the_ Colossus,                                      p. 108

  XIII. _Of some other_ Columns _in the_ Hippodrom,            p. 110

  XIV. _Of the Church of_ Bacchus, _of the Court of_ Hormisda,
  _and the House of_ Justinian,                                p. 117

  XV. _Of the Port of_ Julian _and_ Sophia; _of the_ Portico
  _nam’d_ Sigma, _and the Palace of St._ Sophia,               p. 120

  XVI. _Of the Fourth_ Ward,                                   p. 126

  XVII. _Of the_ Forum _called_ Augusteum, _the Pillar of_
  Theodosius, _and_ Justinian, _also of the_ Senate-house,     p. 127

  XVIII. _Of the Imperial Palace, and the_ Basilica, _as also
  of the Palace of_ Constantine, _and of the House of Entrance
  nam’d_ Chalca,                                               p. 133

  XIX. _Of the_ Basilica, _and the Imperial Walks_,            p. 140

  XX. _Of the Imperial Library and_ Portico, _and also of the
  Imperial_ Cistern,                                           p. 143

  XXI. _Of the_ Chalcopratia,                                  p. 148

  XXII. _Of the_ Portico’s _situate between the Palace, and
  the_ Forum _of_ Constantine,                                 p. 150

  XXIII. _Of the_ Miliarium Aureum, _and its Statues; of_
  Fortune, _the Goddess of the City, and her Statue_,          p. 152

  XXIV. _Of the Temple of_ Neptune, _and the Church of
  St._ Mina _or_ Menna, _of the_ Stadia, _and_ Stairs _of_
  Timasius,                                                    p. 157

  XXV. _Of the_ Lausus, _and its Statues_; viz. _a_ Venus _of_
  Cnidos, _a_ Juno _of_ Samos, _a_ Minerva _of_ Lindia, _a
  winged_ Cupid, _a_ Jupiter Olympius, _a_ Saturn, Unicorns,
  Tygers, Vultures, Beasts _that are half Camels and half
  Panthers; of the Cistern, in an Hospital, which was call’d_
  Philoxenos, _and a_ Chrysotriclinium,                        p. 159

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