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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

CHAP. I. _Of several Places in the Fifth_ Ward, _and the
  Second Hill; of the_ Neorium, _of the Port nam’d the_
  Bosporium, _of the_ Strategium, _and the_ Forum _of_
  Theodosius,                                                  p. 164

  II. _Of the Sixth_ Ward, _and the remaining antient
  Buildings of the Second Hill_,                               p. 171

  III. _Of the_ Porphyry _Pillar, the_ Forum _of_ Constantine,
  _and the_ Palladium,                                         p. 172

  IV. _Of the Senate House, the_ Nympheum, _and the Statues
  in the_ Forum _of_ Constantine, _of the_ Labarum _and_
  Supparum, _of the_ Philadelphium, _of the Death of_ Arius,
  _and of the Temples of_ Tellus, Ceres, Persephone, Juno,
  _and_ Pluto,                                                 p. 181

  V. _Of the Seventh Ward_,                                    p. 190

  VI. _Of the Street call’d_ Taurus, _of the_ Forum, _and
  Pillar of_ Theodosius, _which had winding Stairs within it;
  of the_ Tetrapylum, _the_ Pyramidical _Engine of the Winds,
  of the Statues of_ Arcadius, _and_ Honorius, _the Churches
  of_ Hirena, _and_ Anastasia, _and the Rocks called_
  Scyronides,                                                  p. 193

  VII. _Of the Eighth_ Ward, _and the Back-part of the
  Third Hill_,                                                 p. 202

  VIII. _Of the Ninth_ Ward, _of the Temple of_ Concord,
  _of the Granaries of_ Alexandria _and_ Theodosius, _of
  the Baths of_ Anastasia, _of the House of_ Craterus, _of
  the_ Modius, _and the Temple of the_ Sun _and_ Moon,         p. 205

  IX. _Of the Third Valley and the Tenth_ Ward, _of the
  House, and Palace of_ Placidia, _of the_ Aqueducts of
  Valentinian, _the Baths of_ Constantius, _and the_
  Nympheum,                                                    p. 209

[Illustration: Page Decoration]


BOOK IV.

  CHAP. I. _Of the Eleventh_ Ward, _and of the Fourth and
  Fifth Hill_,                                                 p. 217

  II. _Of the Church of the_ Apostles, _of the Sepulchre
  of_ Constantine _the_ Great, _of the Cisterns of_
  Arcadius, _and_ Modestus, _of the Palace of_ Placilla,
  _and the_ Brazen Bull,                                       p. 221

  III. _Of the Sixth Hill, and the Fourteenth_ Ward,           p. 236

  IV. _Of the_ Hepdomum, _a Part of the Suburbs, of
  the_ Triclinium _of_ Magnaura, _of the Palace called_
  Cyclobion, _of the Statue of_ Mauritius, _and his
  Arsenal, and also of the Place called the_ Cynegium,         p. 238

  V. _Of the_ Blachernæ, _the_ Triclinium _of the_
  Blachernæ, _of the Palace, the_ Aqueduct, _and many other
  Places of Antiquity_,                                        p. 244

  VI. _Of the Bridge near the Church of St._ Mamas, _of
  the_ Hippodrom, _of the_ Brazen Lyon, _and the Tomb of
  the Emperor_ Mauritius,                                      p. 248

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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

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