[255] A mistake for vertical circles; the large number of cisterns where the vaults are uncovered make this certain. See our p. 221. [256] Salz., plate xxiv. [257] Salz., plate xxiii. [258] See figure in Salzenberg’s text. [259] Salz., plate xi. [260] Preparation for the gold. [261] Salzenberg’s plate xv., fig. 6. The inclination of the sides of that shown is much exaggerated, if in any case it exists. [262] Salz., plate xvi., fig. 1, 5. [263] Plate xvi., figs. 5, 6. [264] Salz., plate xvii., figs. 12 and 13. Fig. 14 gives the base, fig. 2 a complete column. [265] Salz., plate xv., figs. 7, 8. [266] See Salz., plate xv., figs. 1, 4, 5 for lower cornice; plate xvi., 2 and 3 for upper, figs. 3, 4 for dome cornice, fig. 9 aisle cornice. This last, says Salzenberg, “is mended in many places with gypsum, and comes from an earlier building.” We do not know what earlier building could have furnished a quarter of the quantity used in S. Sophia. Is it possible that the whole of it is of gypsum? (See our chapter xii.) The marble skirtings are shown on plates xv. and xvi. [267] In a note Salzenberg draws attention to Paulus speaking of eight windows in this wall, and conjectures that instead of the five upper windows there was one large opening here. [268] Salz., plate xx., fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a capital that was found on one of the four parapet posts, and removed at the “restoration”; fig. 7 was not found in S. Sophia; fig. 8 was an isolated capital in north aisle; figs. 9-11 show upper mouldings to the piers of the propylaeum. [269] Salz., plate xx., fig. 12 shows the underside of the beam in the middle of the west gynaeceum; fig. 15 is the side, and fig. 16 the underside of one in the south gynaeceum; figs. 13 and 14, one in the north gynaeceum. [270] Salz., plate xiv. [271] Plate xvii., figs. 1-7. [272] See Salz., plate xvii. Fig. 3 is the upper capital, fig. 4 the lower, figs. 5 and 6 the base, and fig. 7 the under side of the architrave. Figs. 8, 9, 10 are details of large west window. [273] Salz., plate xviii. [274] Plate xviii., figs. 10-14. [275] See plates vi. and xi. [276] Salz., plate iii., fig. 7. [277] Salz., plate xix. [278] See Salz., plate ix. [279] Salz., plate xvi., fig. 4. [280] Salz., plate xvi. [281] Salz., plates xxi., xxii. Plate xxii., fig. 1 shows the upper frieze and the panels beneath. [282] Salz., plate xxi., fig. 18, and our fig. 9. [283] Bury, vol. ii., 202. [284] J. of Ephesus wrote _circa_ 590, R. Payne Smith’s translation. [285] See also Rambaud, _Revue des Deux Mondes_, Aug. 1871. [286] See plan and view in Strzygowski und Forchheimer, _Die Wasserbehälter von Konstantinopel_. [287] _Imperium Orientale_, p. 664. [288] See _Ancien Plan de Constantinople imprimé entre 1566 et 1574, avec Notes explicatives par Caedicius_, 1890. [289] Ed. 1562, p. 91. [290] Hakluyt Society, 1859, p. 34. [291] Migne, _S.G._ vol. 133, p. 695.