Contents: Introduction - The Constantinian "prehistory": The Great Church at the dawn of its existence - The context: From the Tetrastoon to the Augustaion - "Eirene", the first episcopal church - Excursus: Tracing early church buildings around the city - The Great Church of Constantius II (360) - Searching for a background - Origin, functions, and name of the new building - From the inauguration of 360 to the fire of 404 - The Great Church under Arcadius and Theodosius II - The "indirect patronage" of Arcadius - The "Restless" existence of the Great Church during the fifth century - The archaeology and architecture of the Great Church: Answering difficult questions - Scholarship prior to the first archaeological excavations - Possible models for the church of Constantius ii - Discovering the fifth-century church's remains - The portico wall - The wall masonry - The front colonnade and propylon - The floor mosaics - The layout and "identity" of the portico - Investigations beneath the floor of the Justinianic nave - The fifth-century church: An attempt at reconstruction - The façade of the Theodosian portico - Column shafts attributed to the portico wings - Capitals from the portico - Epistyles and sima from the portico trabeation - Column shafts from the propylon - A capital from the propylon - Pilaster capitals from the propylon - The propylon trabeation and ceiling - Door jambs and lintels - Models for the façade of the portico - A note on the Skeuophylakion, the Vizier's Garden and the early baptistery - Excavations in the Vizier's Garden: The northern baptistery - Conclusions. (Saggi di storia dell'arte, 52)

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