of buildings. It is valuable for the place-names and village toponyms it records, even though only six of a total of forty have been recognized as directly related to the city itself.

Six private estates were located in the vicinity of the Tzykanisterion, in other words closely connected with the polo field inside the 'Royal' wall. From the names of the churches recorded at its boundaries, it is believed that the properties, and the Tzykanisterion too, were located at the city's northern edge.

Six fields were located in the place known as 'Elaphou', also within the boundaries of the 'Royal' wall. Their close connection to the monastery of Hagios Dionysios on the Areopagus and the church of Hagia Marina situates the fields northwest of the Acropolis. The rocky terrain inby Travlos, in addition to many of his unpublished sketches. While the general topographical plan of the area is informative, it was made after the clearing of the Middle Byzantine levels. However, some of these levels are shown in separate plans. We possess only indirect information about the unchecked destruction wrought in the area in 1860 when the street was made.

The archaeological remains from this entire area are in such a poor state of preservation because the area was inhabited at the end of the Ottoman period and preexisting monuments were quarried for their building materials. Despite this, the evidence seems to point to the existence in the eleventh and twelfth centuries of three or four dense clusters of buildings. All medieval remains were cleared so that the