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(De Topographia Constantinopoleos 4.4)
The suburbs called the Hepdomum stood on the sixth hill, which is now enclosed within the walls of the city. This is plain from the location of the Church of St John the Baptist, which even at this time the Greeks call the Πρóδoρoς or forerunner of our Saviour. This church is situated on the eastern side of the city (i.e. on the north-east side, at the Golden Horn?). It is almost entirely demolished by the Mohametans, and nothing of it remains but a few marble pillars, expecting the last effort of their sacrilege.
This was a costly and magnificent building, as appears among other evidence from the Cistern of Bonus, which was built by a nobleman of that name and situated above it. It was three hundred paces long; its roof and columns are entirely ruined, and its site at present is turned into a garden.
Comment by Crow 2008: This description is confused. The Hebdomon was, as van Millingen first demonstrated, in fact outside the city walls at modern Bakırköy. The huge cistern without columns or roof is presumably the reservoir of Aetius see Janin (1964), 204, although this is some distance south of the area that Gilles defined as the Hebdomon.
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