Cyril Mango recorded in 1979 the same gardens that, by the late 1980s, were destroyed to construct the new highway. This photograph shows towers 17 through 21 of the northeastern section of the Theodosian Walls.
Cyril Mango, Theodosian Walls, 1979. Image Collection and Fieldwork Archives, BF.S.1979.0266, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
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