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 of vestiaries or dressers who are occupied with the royal apparel, including females of various grades with similar titles for the service of the Empress. At the eastern limit of the Palace stands the Pharos, a beacon tower afterwards, if not now, the first of a series throughout Asia Minor by which signals were flashed to and from the capital. The Tzykanisterion, Imperial Gardens, large enough to be called a park, occupies a great part of the south-eastern corner of the peninsula. It is surrounded, or rather fortified, by substantial walls which join the sea walls of the city on the east and south. The western section, which terminates on the south near the palace of Hormisdas and Port Julian, is surmounted by a covered terrace named the Gallery of