[292] Texier figured in the _Revue Archéologique_, 1845, a small fountain found near the hippodrome to which it probably formerly belonged. [293] Nicetas, ed. Bonn, p. 857. [294] An organ is shown on the sculptured base of the obelisk of Theodosius. [295] MS. Mus. Brit., Sloane 2742, xvi. c. [296] Procopius. [297] Hakluyt Soc., p. 36. [298] _Nuremberg Chronicle._ [299] _Constantinopolis Christiana_, lib. i., ch. xxiv. [300] _La Syrie Centrale_, p. 75. [301] Ed. Bonn, p. 307 _et seq._ [302] Nicetas, p. 733. [303] Quoted by Buzantios. [304] _Ceremonies_, appendix _ad lib._ i., p. 502. [305] Ed. Bonn, v., p. 266. [306] Hakluyt Soc. series. [307] Anna Comnena also speaks of the houses of the Great Church. [308] See Curtis, _Broken Bits of Byzantium_, part 2. [309] Paspates, p. 40. [310] See Curtis, _Broken Bits of Byz._, part 2. [311] It may be mentioned that an Italian cantharus, or font, of the twelfth century, in the possession of Mr. Brindley, has the Latinised form of the same word in an inscription around its rim which reads Artificum summus cui nullus in orbe secundus Hunc luterem clarum sollerer sculpsit aquae.... [312] Quoted by Paspates, _Byzan. Mel._ Note on p. 340. [313] Lanciani, _Pagan and Christ. Rome_. [314] Labarte, _Pal. Imp._ [315] _Pachymeres de Michael Palaeol._, ed. Migne, p. 703. See also Du Cange, _S. Sophia_, § 22. [316] _Inscriptiones Antiquae totius orbis Romani._ [317] Grelot is vague in regard to it. Banduri understood him to mean that the inscription was on the inner water vessels. The Greek patriarch Constantios accepts it as having belonged to the Phiale. Buzantios wildly says baptistery. [318] An inscrip. in Baptistery Florence, reads-- EN GIRO TORTE SOL CICLOS ET ROTOR IGNE. [319] See p. 84 and Kraus for other similar inscriptions. [320] The first, he says, “stands by the entrance to an old Bagno,” it was 4′ 3½″ in diameter. “The second stands in the midst of the cistern in the square court of the supposed St. John’s Church.” This was 2′ 6″ in diameter. [321] Migne, _Pat. Cur. Com. Series Graeca_, vol. i. [322] _Euchologium_, ed. 1647, p. 463. [323] Ed. 1647, p. 560. [324] _Relation Nouvelle d’un Voyage de Constantinople._ [325] In Fig. 29 we have followed his drawings disregarding his estimate of height. [326] Curtis, _Broken Bits of Byz._, Part II. [327] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [328] See P. D. Kouppas, _The Building of Byzantine Churches_. Ἑλλην. Φιλολ. Συλλ. παραρ. vol. 20-22, p. 38. [329] For gold tesserae of second cent. see _Bull. Soc. des Ant._, 1893, p. 76. [330] _Eastern Palestine Memoirs_, 1889, p. 172. [331] See Fig. 30. [332] From the Hellenic Society’s supplement to their journal. [333] See also _Byzantinische Zeitschrift_, 1894. [334] The inscription states that the work was done while Paul was archbishop. And-- ΜΗΝΙΝΟΕΜΒΡΙΩΙΝΔΙΚΤΙΟΝΙΤΕΤΑΡΤΗΕΤΟΥϹ ΑΠΟΚΤΙϹΕΩϹΚΟϹΜΟΥϲ̣