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[62] _Ibid._ p. 212.

[63] _Ibid._ p. 479.

[64] _Acta et diplomata patriarchatus Constantinop._ t. ii. p. 12 [Greek: en tais hierais te kai synodikais syneleusesi; proton men gar panton ton archimandriten ton Stoudiou kai ho chronos katestese kai to dikaion auto.]

[65] Theoph. Cont. p. 362.

[66] _Ibid._ p. 384.

[67] Glycas, p. 592; Cedrenus, ii. p. 539; Psellus, pp. 87-93; _Byzantine Texts_, edited by Prof. Bury; cf. Schlumberger, _epopee byzantine a la fin du dixieme siecle_, p. 372.

[68] See Cedrenus, ii. p. 555; Will, _Commemoratio brevis_, p. 150; Schlumberger, _op. cit._ chapitre viii.

[69] Attaliotes, pp. 304, 306; Glycas, p. 617; Scylitzes, pp. 738-39.

[70] Scylitzes, pp. 649-51; Bryennius, p. 20.

[71] Acropolita, p. 197.

[72] Ducas, p. 99 [Greek: plesion tou naou entos tes pyles].

[73] _Pasch. Chron._ pp. 726-27.

[74] Mr. Pantchenko of the Russian Inst.i.tute at Constantinople has found evidence that cloisters stood along the east and south sides of the great cistern to the south-west of the church.

[75] Constant. Porphyr. _De cer._ ii. pp. 562-3.

[76] Gyllius says six.

[77] See pa.s.sage from his _Tagebuch_ quoted on page 50.

[78] _Altchristliche Baudenkmaler von Konstantinopel_, Blatt iv.

[79] _Vida del Gran Tamorlan y itinerario_, pp. 55-56 (Madrid, 1782).

[80] _I.e._ From the elevated floors of the galleries one could look over the church.

CHAPTER III

THE CHURCH OF SS. SERGIUS AND BACCHUS, KUTCHUK AYA SOFIA

On the level tract beside the Sea of Marmora, to the south of the Hippodrome, and a few paces to the north-west of Tchatlady Kapou, stands the ancient church of SS. Sergius and Bacchus. It is commonly known as the mosque Kutchuk Aya Sofia, Little S. Sophia, to denote at once its likeness and its unlikeness to the great church of that name. It can be reached by either of the two streets descending from the Hippodrome to the sea, or by taking train to Koum Kapou, and then walking eastwards for a short distance along the railroad.

There can be no doubt in regard to its ident.i.ty. For the inscription on the entablature of the lower colonnade in the church proclaims the building to be a sanctuary erected by the Emperor Justinian and his Empress Theodora to the honour of the martyr Sergius. The building stands, moreover, as SS. Sergius and Bacchus stood, close to the site of the palace and the harbour of Hormisdas.[81] When Gyllius visited the city the Greek community still spoke of the building as the church of SS. Sergius and Bacchus--'Templum Sergii et Bacchi adhuc superest, cujus nomen duntaxat Graeci etiam nunc retinent.'[82]

[Ill.u.s.tration: PLATE XI.

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