he book while going through the press.

I cannot close without calling attention to the brighter day which has
dawned on the students of the antiquities of Constantinople since
constitutional government has been introduced in the Ottoman Empire.
Permission to carry on excavations in the city has been promised me. The
archaeology of New Rome only waits for wealthy patrons to enable it to
reach a position similar to that occupied by archaeological research in
other centres of ancient and mediaeval civilizations. But the monuments
of the olden time are perishable. Of the churches described by Paspates
in his _Byzantine Studies_, published in 1877, nine have either entirely
disappeared or lost more of their original features. It was no part of
wisdom to let the books of the cunning Sibyl become rarer and knowledge
poorer by neglecting to secure all that was obtainable when she made her
first or even her second offer.

ALEXANDER VAN MILLINGEN.

ROBERT COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE.

[Greek: Polis ekklesion galouche, pisteos archege, orthodoxias podege.]

NICETAS CHONIATES.

CONTENTS

PAGE
CHAPTER I

BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE 1

CHAPTER II

CHURCH OF S. JOHN THE BAPTIST OF THE STUDION 35

CHAPTER III

CHURCH OF SS. SERGIUS AND BACCHUS 62

CHAPTER IV

CHURCH OF S. IRENE 84

CHAPTER V

CHURCH OF S. ANDREW IN KRISEI 106

CHAPTER VI

CHURCH OF S. MARY PANACHRANTOS 122

CHAPTER VII

CHURCH OF S. MARY PAMMAKARISTOS 138

CHAPTER VIII

CHURCH OF S. THEODOSIA 164

CHAPTER IX

CHURCH OF S. MARY DIACONISSA 183

CHAPTER X

CHURCH OF SS. PETER AND MARK 191

CHAPTER XI

CHURCH OF THE MYRELAION 196

CHAPTER XII

CHURCH OF S. JOHN THE BAPTIST IN TRULLO 201

CHAPTER XIII

CHURCH OF S. THEKLA 207

CHAPTER XIV

CHURCH OF S. SAVIOUR PANTEPOPTES 212

CHAPTER XV

CHURCH OF S. SAVIOUR PANTOKRATOR 219

CHAPTER XVI

CHURCH OF S. THEODORE 243