ABSTRACT
Location of the Maurianos xenôn Theophanes Continuatus refers to the Maurianos as a “ xenodocheion located at the quarters of Maurianou”. 9 Demetrios Constantelos notes that the Maurianos xenôn was founded as part of the philanthropic policy, directed to many institutions and charitable works, of Emperor Romanos Lekapenos. 10 He also observes that the quarters of Maurianos “were known also as the Maurice, because the Emperor Maurice [emp. 582-602], had once lived there”. 11 George Majeska records a market in the Great Porticoed Street of Maurianos “where the major artery leading from the Mese . . . opened on to Perama and the Galata ferry dock, that is at the Basilike Gate”. 12 The same premises in this quarter are also referred to as a xenodocheion in Marlia Mango’s paper in which she records that Romanos established a xenodocheion “in the Portico of Domninos (also called Embolos tou Maurianou )”. 13 These disconnected notes give only a hazy picture of the district. The xenôn there conjures up no image except through these remedies.
