Report of the new Findings from Byzantine Istanbul

Abstract

Excavations and researches in Istanbul in recent years have uncovered important finds that will shed light on the city’s Byzantine past. These are: the substructure of the northern building in the Zeyrek Mosque, the old Pantocrator monastic church, and the chapel adjacent to the parekklesion to its south plus a badly damaged fresco on the wall near the apse of the diakonikon of the naos; at the Beyazıt excavation an Early Byzantine church ruin; the remains of the ruined church found during the restoration work at the place called Anemas Dungeons; frescos and the inscription discovered at Samatya in the Martyrion of Karpos Papylos; a cross-in-square Byzantine cistern found in the west of the former Byzantine Church of Saint Andrew currently Koca Mustafa Paşa Mosque; a Middle Byzantine ruin hidden behind the Şengül Hamamı (Ottoman Bath) near Gülhane Parkı at Sultanahmet; and the beautifully preserved fresco of a warrior saint from the monastic church of Constantine Lips, present day Fenari İsa Camisi respectively.