Constantinople No. 2 / Constantinopolis / Istambul / Istanbul / Kostantiniyye / Kōnstantinoúpolis / Κωνσταντινούπολις / Nova Roma

Noted and illustrated in Van Millingen & Henderson (1912) in their description of the former Byzantine Church of SS. Peter and Mark, in the Constantinople: "On the opposite side of the street lies a cruciform font that belonged to the baptistery of the church." Noted and illustrated in Gurlitt (1999). The outer shape of this sunken font is semicircular with a rectangular protrusion on the straight end; this rectangular protrusion corresponds internally to the side where the three steps leading to the bottom of the basin are located; the rest of the internal part, that is, the one which correspond to the semicircle, has a trefoil shape, so that the font, seen from above resembles a clover leaf. The illustration in Gurlitt (1999) shows a square opening on the right side of the basin (seen from the steps) which may have connected to the intake/drainage conduits (?).