64 CONSTANTINOPLE. 
CHAP, oi Antliony and Cleopatra; a silver medal of 
V y > Chalcedon of the highest antiquity; and an 
intaglio onyx, representing the Flight of jEneas 
from Troy. There is every reason to believe, 
that, within the precincts of this vast city, many 
fine remains of antient art may hereafter be 
discovered. The courts of Turkish houses are 
closed from observation; and in some of these 
are magnificent soroi, concealed from view, 
serving as cisterns to their fountains. In the 
floors of the different baths are also, in all 
probability, many inscribed marbles; the charac- 
ters of which, being turned downwards, escape 
even the observation of the Turhs. No monu- 
ment was perhaps ever more calculated to 
exhibit the surprising talents of antient sculptors, 
than the Column of Arcadius, as it formerly stood 
in the Forum of that Emperor. According to 
the fine representations of its bas-reliefs, en- 
graved from Bellini s drawings for the work of 
Banduri, the characteristic features of the 
Russians were so admirably delineated in the 
figures of Scythian captives, that they are 
evident upon the slightest inspection'. 
(l) Imperium Orientale, torn. II. p. 521. The Reader, referring 
to the work, is requested to attend particularly to the portraits of 
the Scythian monarch and of one of his nobles, in the third 
plate. 
