CHAPTER IV. The Silentiary’s Account, Part 3. The Ambo. Coronations in the Ambo. _page_ 53 CHAPTER V. Main Divisions. Bema. Altar. Ciborium. Crowns, &c. Altar Veils. Iconostasis. Prothesis and Diakonikon. Holy Well and Metatorion. Solea. The Nave and Pavement. Font. Crosses. Miraculous Marbles, &c. Water Vessels. Images and Tombs. Hangings. Carpets. Synods. Clergy and Ritual. Adoration of the Cross. Procession to the Church. _page_ 66 CHAPTER VI. § 1. The True Cross and Relics of the Passion. Other Treasure. Accounts by Russian Pilgrims. § 2. The Lighting of the Church. _page_ 97 CHAPTER VII. § 1. Later History. Occupation of the Church by the Crusaders. Fall of Constantinople. § 2. The Anonymous Account of the Church. § 3. Legends. _page_ 122 CHAPTER VIII. Fossati’s Reparations. Salzenberg’s Description of Design, Materials, Construction, and Decoration. _page_ 148 CHAPTER IX. Precincts of the Church, &c. Palaces. Hippodrome. Augusteum. Milion. Horologium. S. Peter’s Chapel, &c. Boundaries of Church. Atrium. Phiale. Pavement. West Front. Belfry. Cisterns. Exterior generally. _page_ 173 CHAPTER X. § 1. Byzantine Origins. § 2. The Builders of the Church. § 3. Original Form of the Church: Dome and N. and S. Arches, Atrium, N.W. and S.W. Angles, Baptistery and Loggia. § 4. Structural System. Arch Forms. Vaulting. Dome Construction. Chainage and Walling. Mortar and Cement. _page_ 198 CHAPTER XI. § 1. Building Procedure. § 2. Marble Quarries and Identification of the Marbles. § 3. Application of Marble to the Walls. § 4. Marble Masonry. Seven Orders of Byzantine Capitals. Distribution and Dates of Capitals. Shafts and Bases. Responds. Cornices and Skirtings. Windows, &c. Carving. _page_ 234 CHAPTER XII. § 1. Bronze Doors, &c. § 2. Mosaics. Salzenberg’s Description. First Scheme. Later Scheme. Fossati’s Description. Tesserae and Fixing. § 3. Glass. Plaster. Painting. § 4. Monograms and Inscriptions. _page_ 264 S. SOPHIA CHAPTER I THE CITY OF CONSTANTINE AND THE FIRST CHURCH _Byzantium._--Where the narrow swift-flowing Bosporus, which divides Asia from the most eastern part of southern Europe, flows into the Sea of Marmara, a crescent-shaped arm of the sea runs westward into the land, leaving a narrow promontory, which, like the prow of a boat in profile, puts out to the east. The point of this promontory is a mass of rock rising steeply from the sea: divided by a slight transverse depression from the rest of the land, it forms the first hill of the seven which were afterwards inclosed by the walls of Constantinople.