City
Sycas
Galata
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Sycas takes its name from the Greek word for fig trees, which grew especially fine on this headland across the Golden Horn from Constantinople. Today it is Galata in Istanbul. The map swells the peninsula and fills it almost entirely with a large temple drawing, which probably stands for the early church of Saint Eirene rather than the old shrine of the seer Amphiaraos. It is the last station of the military road, though the copyist forgot to draw the red road line. Around AD 425 it became Constantinople's thirteenth district, and in 528 Justinian made it a city.