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

BOOK II.

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CHAP. I. _Of the Buildings and Monuments of Old_ Byzantium _and_ Constantinople, p. 73

II. _Of the Antient Monuments of the First Hill, and of the First_ Ward _of the City_, p. 75

III. _Of the Church of St._ Sophia, p. 82

IV. _A Description of the Church of St._ Sophia, _as it now appears_, p. 87

V. _Of the Statues found on one Side of that Church_, p. 95

VI. _Of the_ Pharo _on the_ Promontory _of_ Ceras, _and the_ Mangana, p. 96

VII. _Of the_ Bagnio’s _of_ Zeuxippus, _and its Statues_, p. 97

VIII. _Of the Hospitals of_ Sampson, _and_ Eubulus, p. 100

IX. _Of the Statue of_ Eudocia Augusta, _for which St._ Chrysostom _was sent into Banishment_, p. 101

X. _Of those Parts of the City which are contain’d in the Third_ Ward, p. 102

XI. _Of the_ Hippodrom, _its_ Obelisk, _its_ Statues, _and_ Columns, p. 103

XII. _Of the_ Colossus, p. 108

XIII. _Of some other_ Columns _in the_ Hippodrom, p. 110

XIV. _Of the Church of_ Bacchus, _of the Court of_ Hormisda, _and the House of_ Justinian, p. 117

XV. _Of the Port of_ Julian _and_ Sophia; _of the_ Portico _nam’d_ Sigma, _and the Palace of St._ Sophia, p. 120

XVI. _Of the Fourth_ Ward, p. 126

XVII. _Of the_ Forum _called_ Augusteum, _the Pillar of_ Theodosius, _and_ Justinian, _also of the_ Senate-house, p. 127

XVIII. _Of the Imperial Palace, and the_ Basilica, _as also of the Palace of_ Constantine, _and of the House of Entrance nam’d_ Chalca, p. 133

XIX. _Of the_ Basilica, _and the Imperial Walks_, p. 140

XX. _Of the Imperial Library and_ Portico, _and also of the Imperial_ Cistern, p. 143

XXI. _Of the_ Chalcopratia, p. 148

XXII. _Of the_ Portico’s _situate between the Palace, and the_ Forum _of_ Constantine, p. 150

XXIII. _Of the_ Miliarium Aureum, _and its Statues; of_ Fortune, _the Goddess of the City, and her Statue_, p. 152

XXIV. _Of the Temple of_ Neptune, _and the Church of St._ Mina _or_ Menna, _of the_ Stadia, _and_ Stairs _of_ Timasius, p. 157

XXV. _Of the_ Lausus, _and its Statues_; viz. _a_ Venus _of_ Cnidos, _a_ Juno _of_ Samos, _a_ Minerva _of_ Lindia, _a winged_ Cupid, _a_ Jupiter Olympius, _a_ Saturn, Unicorns, Tygers, Vultures, Beasts _that are half Camels and half Panthers; of the Cistern, in an Hospital, which was call’d_ Philoxenos, _and a_ Chrysotriclinium, p. 159