The Antiquities Of Constantinople

Abstract

The antiquarian traveller will be greatly aided in researches of this kind, if he is able to secure the assistance of Mr. George Sklirakis, whom I engaged as a dragoman on the recommendation of the Rev. Canon Curtis, minister of the English Memorial Church at Constantinople.Mr. Sklirakis is not an ordinary guide; he has carefully studied the monuments of the city and the literature connected with them.5 Information concerning Varangian monuments would be best obtained by application at the Swedish Consulate.The Varangian body-guard appear in a mosaic at San Vitale, Ravenna, of which there^ is a coloured copy in the South Kensington Museum.For references on this subject see my paper on the Antiquities of Scandinavia, section ii, Byzantine influence, " Archaeological Journal," vol.xxxv, p. 261, note 2. The testimony of Codinus shows that some at least of these soldiers were English, Πολυχρονίζουσι Β άραγγοι, κατά την πάτριο ν κα\ ούτοι Ύλωσσαν αυτών, ijyovv Ίγκλινίστί, ρ. 90 [ρ.57, ed.Bonn], quoted by Gibbon, " Decline and Fall," chap, liii, vol.vii, p. 22, edit.Dr. Wm. Smith.A series of seals relating to the Varangians has been discovered ; they are described by Dr. Mordtmann in the " Revue Arclidologique; " one of them is remarkable as belonging to the ίκρμηνίυτ^ or chief dragoman.

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