Description of the East, vol.ii.part ii.p.131.But it is still in many instances perplexed and unsatisfactory.] [Footnote 46: Ducange, Const.l.i.c.24, p.

76, and his notes ad Alexiad.p.382.The statue of Constantine or Apollo was thrown down under the reign of Alexius Comnenus.

* Note: On this column (says M.von Hammer) Constantine, with singular shamelessness, placed his own statue with the attributes of Apollo and Christ.

He substituted the nails of the Passion for the rays of the sun.

Such is the direct testimony of the author of the Antiquit.Constantinop.apud Banduri.