Installation details

english name
Zeyrek Cistern (Unkapanı)
turkish name
Zeyrek/Unkapanı sarnıcı
original name
Pantokrator
ottoman name
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events
event persons
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purposes
still exists
Yes
type
Cistern (underground)
location
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description

Recently restored. Part of the Pantokrator monastery (now Zeyrek mosque).

Crow et al., 2008, p. 116: the reconstructed Hadrianic line that follows the hillsides of Istanbul also passes the Pantokrator cistern close the the sout-west corner which has been confirmed as an inflow point. Supply from the Hadrian Waterway therefore seems likely. Water entered this cistern through an elevated channel which surrounds the main chamber at gallery level, and probably connected at the south-west side (Crow et al., 2008, p. 139-140).

Cistern (E5/2) Unkapanı on Atatürk Bulvarı (Crow et al., 2008, p. 148).

comments

Cistern concordance (Crow et al., 2008, p. 148): Forchheimer and Strzygowski 1893: 70-1 no. 13; Kleiss 1965a: 74; Müller-Wiener 1977: 210, 215, 275 (giving E5/3 in error); Schneider 1936: 87 G.

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