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Cistern of the Hebdomon

Bakırköy, Turkey

The Cistern of the Hebdomon (ῦ Ἕ), known in Turkish as Fildamı Sarnıcı ("Cistern of the elephant's stable"), is a Byzantine open sky water reservoir built in the quarter of the Hebdomon (today's Bakırköy), an outskirt of Constantinople.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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