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ALBANIA.-Miscellaneous Antiquities.-B. PACE describes a number of inscriptions and votive and sepulchral reliefs discovered in Albania during the war. The site of ancient Apollonia is especially rich in antiquities. Many fragments are incorporated in the walls of the monastery of Shinamari at this place. The church of the monastery and its Byzantine inscriptions are described. (Ann. Scuol. It. At. III, 1916-1920, pp. 286-290; 3 figs.) CONSTANTINOPLE.-The Palace of the Philopation.-J. PAPADOPOULOS reports that at Toptchila, ten minutes from the Adrianople gate of Constantinople, two remarkable Byzantine capitals were recently discovered, together with a number of fragments of reliefs. Other antiquities were found on the same site some years ago. Near by is an ancient structure in which a modern fountain is installed; it may have been the piscina of a bath. A subterranean gallery, perhaps an aqueduct, also extends along the same field. The great number of remains shows that there was originally a Byzantine palace on this site. Examination of the literary evidence proves that it cannot have been the palace of the Aretai, constructed by the emperor Diogenes. Its situation rather corres

Author

Sidney N. Deane

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published

1922

Language

GA