[194] In the figure 18 the attachment for the chain is shown at A, the chain of monograms is taken from Rossi, B shows the provision for the chains in the last example (Fig. 17), where there is a slight mistake, the alternate piercings in the rim being crosses as here shown. [195] Adapted from a photographic view in A. Riley’s _Mountain of the Monks_. [196] Du Cange. [197] Lib. iii. This was at Milan. [198] For this and other lamps see especially _La Messe_ and _Il Tesoro_. [199] A. Riley, _Mountain of the Monks_. [200] P. 154. [201] _Constantinopolis und aer Bosporus_, vol. i., pp. 36-44. [202] The images were restored in S. Sophia on the 19th of February. Pagi. Critica in _Universos Annales Baronii_, vol. iii., p. 587. [203] Goar’s _Euchologium_, 1647, p. 560. [204] Cons. Porph. _Life of Basil_, ch. 79. [205] _Leo Diaconus_, ed. Bonn, p. 176. [206] Du Cange, _S. Sophia_, § 35. [207] Paspates, _Byzantinae Meletae_. [208] _Pachymeres_, ed. Bonn, i., p. 172. [209] _Hist. Byzan._, ed. Bonn, p. 273. [210] Ed. Bonn, lib. iv., p. 29. [211] Nicephorus Gregoras, p. 749. [212] Cantacuz., ed. Bonn, p. 30. [213] Compare Tozer’s _Turkey_, i. 97. He says Constantinople is still constantly called “the City” all over the Levant. [214] Gyllius reports a similar story. [215] Wright’s _Early Travels in Palestine_. [216] “Constantine, the last emperor of the Greeks.” [217] Brit. Mus. MSS. Add. 6,417. [218] Salzenberg, _Altchristliche Baudenkmale_. [219] _Relation d’un Voyage de Constantinople_, 1680. [220] MS. Harl., 3,408. [221] From _Originum Rerumque Constantinopolitarium, variis auctoribus, manipulus_, F. Franciscus Combefis, Paris, 1664. The same anonymous description is also given by Banduri, _Imperium Orientale_, ed. 1711, vol. i. [222] Evidently meant for lower aisles. [223] If this interpretation can be accepted for στοαί. [224] Bricks stamped with long inscriptions of this kind were frequently used: one from Sirmium is mentioned in _Byzantinische Zeitschrift_ for 1894, p. 222: “O Lord Christ, help this city, keep off the Avars and guard Romania and him who writes this, Amen.” [225] This may mean the thickness of the marble wall lining in some places gilt--if it has a meaning. [226] σειζαὶ, a network, studded with jewels, suspended from processional crosses, and from the sides of crowns, see Fig. 15. [227] Reading ἐπὶ for ἀντί. [228] βοτρυιδόν, “like bunches of grapes.” [229] φίνες, Graecised form of the Latin _fines_. [230] Quoted in Ibn Batuta, Orient. Trans. Socy. [231] Du Cange, notes on Bondelmontius. [232] Glycas, _Annalium, Pars V._, ed. Bonn, p. 498. [233] Du Cange, _op. cit._ [234] Hopf, _Chroniques Gréco-Romanes_, Berlin, 1873, p. 67. [235] _Altchristliche Baudenkmale von Constantinopel_, published by the Prussian Government, Berlin 1854, with metrical version of the Silentiary’s poem by Dr. Körtum.