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XXXII. An Account of the Walls of Constantinople, in a Letter from the Rev. James Dallaway, M.B. F.A.S. to Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.R.S. Director

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The detention of my papers for more than five years in the Levant, and the loss of the better part of them, will account for so late a communication of my survey of the great walls of Constantinople, accompanied by some sketches of them, which I beg leave, by your favour, to submit to the Society. They were made in 1795 from repeated examinations, and with a curiosity heightened by objects of so much historical consequence, and exhibiting a picturesque grandeur unequalled in any part of Europe.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1803

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page 232 note [a] Extent of the wall.

This measurement is given in round numbers, following the line of the great road. Some hundred yards more must be allowed for the curvatures made by the wall, where it would not be practicable to approach it.

page 233 note [b] These letters are usually about a yard in length and very narrow, such as ΠΥΡΤΟC ΘΕΟΦΙΔΟΥ ΒΑCΙΔΕΥ ΚΟΝCΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ and others.

Vide Evagrias, 1. ii. c. 17. Theophanes-Manuel Chrysoloras, c. 15. Baudoin De Expugnat. Constantinop.

page 234 note [c] Qui autem sunt muri, quos Constantmopolis duplices tradit antiqua descriptio regionum, hi ne, qui hodie Textant, an vero à Theodosio suerunt conditi, relinquo considerandum, P.Gyllij Constautinop, 1. i. c. 19.

page 236 note [d] Ducange Constatinop. Christiana. ch. xv. p.49.

page 236 note a Portæ Mediterraneæ seu terrestres

page 236 note 1. Xylocirci.

page 236 note 2. Cerco-Porta, a postern, called by Ducas, “Παραώοςτιον”

page 236 note 3. Pona Blakeraarum. Villehardouin, n. 89, 128.

page 236 note 4. Gyro-Limnes. Cantacuzane, 1. i. c. 56. Anna Comn. Alex. lx. Pachymeres, 1. vii. c. 28.

page 236 note 5. stijohannis Baptistæ. Codinus, p. 12.

page 236 note 6. Των ασωματων, near the church of the Angels, Cantacuzene, 1. iii. c. 88.

page 236 note 7. Sti Callinici, a: postern.

page 236 note 8. Charsiæ.

page 236 note 9. Sti Romani.

page 236 note 10. Polyandrii.

page 236 note 11. Nova.

page 236 note 12. Quinti sive

page 236 note 13. Attali.

page 236 note 14. Porta Carea. Nicætas in Andronico, 1. ii. n. 11.

page 236 note 15. Melandesia.

page 236 note 16. Aurea.

page 236 note 17. Rhegii, leading to Rheginm, of which town vide Cantacuzene, 1. i. c. 27, 45. This learned author is mistaken in having placed the Polyandrii after the Romani.

page 237 note [e] Carranus De Bello Constantinop. p. 189, 194.

page 237 note [f]

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Antholog. l. iv. c. 18.

page 239 note [g] Pl. XLII.

page 239 note [h] Quarto, Vol. VI.

page 239 note [i] Pl. XLIII.

page 240 note [k] D'Ohsson, Tableau de l'Empire Othomane.

page 240 note [l] Theodosi. Ivssis Gemino Nec Mense Peracto Constantinvs Ovans Æc Moenia Firma Locavit Tam Cito Tam Stabilem Pallas Vix Conderet Arcem.

page 241 note [m] See Pl XLV.

page 241 note [n]

Antholog.

Manuel Chrysoloras, p. 122. Ducas Hist. Byzant. c. xxxix, p. 160. Nicætas Greg, p. 486. Procopius de Ædisic. 1. i. c. 3.

page 242 note [o] “Porta enim Aurea nunc reliqua conspicitur, sed obstructa.” Leunclavii — Bulialdus says, “In marmore sculpti Herculei labores Auream Portarn ornantes ceruntur, sed calcis albo, cum anno 1647 consideraham, ut et totus mœniorum am ??us, inducti erant, ita ut oculos sugeret sculpturæ elegautia.” This account is consirmed in a grat degree by P. Gyllius. It appears from Radulph de Diceto, M. Paris, and Roger Hoveden. in 1189, that the Golden Gate had been closed two centuries prior to that date. D'Anville, Acad. Inscript. Vol. XXXV. p. 747. Gunther, Hist:. Constantinopolit. ch. xv.