Supplicant Soldiers' Relief from Istanbul

[Renatus]

Both the Theodosius Column (Menestrier) and the Arcadius Column (Freshfield) show men in ships but neither depicts a sea battle as such, so I don't think that a ship in the Beyazit fragments is in any way determinative.

I'll correct myself before anyone else does. There is a sea battle shown in the Freshfield drawing of the Arcadius Column and also what may be an opposed landing. However, there are several other ships that seem simply to be transporting troops, as appears to be the case with the ship in the Menestrier drawing. This, therefore, does not alter my basic point, namely, that the presence of a ship in the Beyazit fragments need not denote a sea battle or draw one to the conclusion that the fragments came from the Arcadius Column, which in any case seems to be chronologically impossible.