- tinguishing monument is a column similar in every way to
that in Taurus,[1] but the silver statue which surmounts it is the figure of Arcadius himself.[2] We are now on the top of the Xerolophos, and the colonnades which lead hence to the walls of Theodosius are named the Porticus Troadenses.[3] But about halfway to the present Imperial portal we pass through the original Golden Gate,[4] a landmark which has been spared in the course of the old walls of Constantine. The extensive tract added by Theodosius II to the interior of the city was formerly the camping ground of the seven bodies of Gothic auxiliaries, and for that reason was divided into seven districts, denoted numerically from south to north. The whole of this quarter is now spoken of as the Exokionion, that is, the region outside the Pillar, in allusion to a well-known statue of Constantine which marks the border.[5] But, in order to particularize the smaller areas of this quarter, some of the numbers are still found indispensable, and we often hear of the Deuteron, Triton, Pempton, and Hebdomon. Adjacent to the Golden Gate is situated the great monastery of St. John Studii, which maintains a thousand monks.[6], p. 343.]
- ↑ Cedrenus, i, p. 567.
- ↑ Zonaras, xiii, 20; the base still remains in Avret Bazaar; the pillar was still intact in the time of Gyllius, who ascended it; op. cit., iv, 7. The sketches supposed to have been taken of the figures on the spiral and published by Banduri and Agincourt have already been alluded to; see p. 49.
- ↑ Notitia, Reg. 12, etc.
- ↑ Buondelmonte's map; a "very handsome gate"; Codin., p. 122. I have noted Van Millingen's opinion that this was not the original "Golden Gate"; see p. 34. But its mention in Notitia, Reg. 12, seems fatal to his view.
- ↑ Codin., p. 46.
- ↑ Ibid., pp. 102, 121; see Paspates for an illustration of the structure still on this site; [Greek: Byzantinai Meletai
