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Mokios (Altimermer) Sarnici |
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Cistern |
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Year of Costruction:
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Beginning of 5th c. |
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Early |
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Altitude:
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55 |
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Region:
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Marmara |
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Province:
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Istanbul |
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District:
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Fatih |
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Village:
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Seyit Ömer Mah. |
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Antique Name:
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Constantinople |
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| It is one of the three largest open-air water reservoirs of the city found in the Altimermer Neighbourhood in the Seyit Ömer Quarter of the Fatih District. It was named after the St. Mokios Church nearby. The cistern was built by the Emperor Anastasios I (491-518). The reservoir is 170 m long, and 147 m wide, and although uncertain as the floor is filled with earth, the depth is probably 15 m. The walls are approximately 6 m thick in the upper section. The masonry consists of courses of stones and bricks. Heavily used during the early period of Byzantium, this open-air cistern became inactive even during the Byzantine Period, and used as a vegetable garden, which lasted during the Ottoman Period as well. The Cistern of Mokios has been recently used as a permanent market place [Forschheimer-Strzygowski 1893:44-45, pics.1, 159-161; Eyice 1994o:482-483; Freely-Çakmak 2004:49]. |
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| Destruction: East and south walls of the cistern were destroyed by partially covering these with concrete [TAYEx 16.09.2008]. |
