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p. 126-127 The City Prefect Modestus had already made provision for water storage by ordering the construction of a reservoir between 363 or 369. The Notitia Urbis of c. 425 indicates that this cistern was in region IX; it was apparently in the northern sector of that region, since the Patria places it near the Church of the Holy Apostles. A cistern (D5/4) was indeed noted between the Bozdoğan Kemeri and Sehzadebaşi Caddesi by Gilles in the Saraçhane (Saddlers’ Market). Forchheimer and Strzygowski discerned some parts of the cistern’s exterior walls and were able to establish that it measured 154 m from north to south by 90 m from east to west.
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