Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge : University Press · leaf 204
once an interior court of the palace.The spandrils of the windows are filled with geometrical Poiy-patterns made of squares and strips of white marble, and decorationthin bricks placed edgeways, or cut into triangles andsquares (Fig. 35). A band of the same divides the twoupper storeys, and the… … a marble tympanum, which remains in a few cases only.From its style the building might be assigned to anydate from the loth to the 12th century, and the traditionwhich assigns it to Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus(912-958) may possibly be correct, though I should bedisposed to date it rather later.…
